Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games
The Boy's Book of Sports and Games
Author: Stanley WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Boys' Book of Sports
Author: The Boys' Book of Sports
Author: Maurice ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Boys Book of Sports (Classic Reprint)
Author: Grantland RicePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260409201
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Excerpt from The Boys Book of Sports Ray and Vardon, come to him and tell the story Of his golfing life; how he began the game; how he im proved his play, and how he finally worked his way to the greatest glory any American youngster has ever known in sport? This is just what Francis Ouimet does in The Boys' Book Of Sports.' And these things are only a small part of the Sport ing party that St. Nicholas is giving. For after reading all the hows and whys of different games, there are still left the gripping stories of young heroes who make long runs down the field, or three base hits, or who come to the tape with the winning spurt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Boy's Treasury of Sports, Pastimes, and Recreations
Author: The Boys Book of Sports
Author: The Boys of Summer
Author: Roger KahnPublisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781312079
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.
The Boys Book of Sports
Author: Grantland RicePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330007259
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Excerpt from The Boys Book of Sports In selecting this material for "The Boys' Book of Sports" we had in mind but one thought. This thought was to try and confer upon the average normal boy - which most of them are - a double blessing. 1. A long period of entertainment and delight. 2. A full span of instruction and an inside view upon all the games that each boy plays, or would like to play, if he had the chance. There is no normal boy in all the world who does n't thrill at the call of outdoor life; who does n't like to play football or baseball, golf or tennis; who doesn't like to camp out, fly kites, have a camera, go fishing and swimming, shoot a rifle, jump, run, or sail a boat, or dream of riding in an aeroplane that will take him far above the trees he climbs and the birds that have eluded his reach. What boy in the land is there who would n't like to have Billy Evans, the great American League umpire, come to him and tell all about the heroes of baseball - how Cobb bats and Johnson pitches, how Alexander wins, and how Speaker makes his three-base hits? What boy is there who would n't like to have Christy Mathewson come and tell him how to throw the "fade-away" - how to hold the ball for various curves, how the great game should be played? They both come to you in this book and tell you all of these things and many more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Every Boy's Book
Author: Edmund RoutledgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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