Author: Mike Roteman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 144907734X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Warning Track Power is a sequel to Phenom, the story of Mike "Sparky" Rosen, a brash, young second baseman who jumped from Class AA directly to his home town Pittsburgh Pirates. In Phenom, Sparky had a Rookie of the Year season and led the Pirates to playoff contention. Now Sparky is back for his second big league season. Can Sparky produce the home run clout needed to drive the Pirates deeper into the playoffs, or will he and the Pirates be victimized by his warning track power? Warning Track Power is loaded with exciting baseball action, plenty of humor, lots of baseball trivia, and a story that will have you laughing, and sometimes maybe even crying as you follow Sparky through the second year of his big league career.
Warning Track Power
Author: Mike Roteman
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 144907734X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Warning Track Power is a sequel to Phenom, the story of Mike "Sparky" Rosen, a brash, young second baseman who jumped from Class AA directly to his home town Pittsburgh Pirates. In Phenom, Sparky had a Rookie of the Year season and led the Pirates to playoff contention. Now Sparky is back for his second big league season. Can Sparky produce the home run clout needed to drive the Pirates deeper into the playoffs, or will he and the Pirates be victimized by his warning track power? Warning Track Power is loaded with exciting baseball action, plenty of humor, lots of baseball trivia, and a story that will have you laughing, and sometimes maybe even crying as you follow Sparky through the second year of his big league career.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 144907734X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Warning Track Power is a sequel to Phenom, the story of Mike "Sparky" Rosen, a brash, young second baseman who jumped from Class AA directly to his home town Pittsburgh Pirates. In Phenom, Sparky had a Rookie of the Year season and led the Pirates to playoff contention. Now Sparky is back for his second big league season. Can Sparky produce the home run clout needed to drive the Pirates deeper into the playoffs, or will he and the Pirates be victimized by his warning track power? Warning Track Power is loaded with exciting baseball action, plenty of humor, lots of baseball trivia, and a story that will have you laughing, and sometimes maybe even crying as you follow Sparky through the second year of his big league career.
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393073491
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description
The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393073491
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description
The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
Bases Loaded
Author: Kirk Radomski
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440686092
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
On a quiet street on Long Island early on a December morning in 2005, more than fifty federal agents stood outside a lovely new home waiting for the front door to be opened. When it did, there stood the central figure in one of the biggest scandals in sports history: Kirk Radomski. Radomski was a regular New York kid who, from the age of fifteen had the amazing fortune of working in the Mets clubhouse. The focus of his job was to give the players whatever they wanted or needed—he got their uniforms ready, packed up their homes at the end of the season, cashed their checks, and helped them beat the drug tests that would have led to suspension. And at the end of the 1986 season he even led the World Champions down Broadway during their victory parade. Eventually, he graduated to helping in other ways: providing them with steroids and human growth hormones. By the time the Feds knocked on his door, he was the main clubhouse supplier of performance-enhancing drugs to almost three hundred baseball players. Under threat of a long prison sentence—and after being identified by players he’d helped—he cooperated with Senator George Mitchell to produce the Mitchell Report, providing names and dates. Now he’s ready to tell the whole story to the world. Radomski made little money from these transactions, and in this stunning book he will recount what baseball knew about the problem, his life since the report came out, and who took what. This is the tale of a young man seeing his heroes turn into clay, and the degradation of a once great sport into the drug-addicted spectacle it has become.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440686092
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
On a quiet street on Long Island early on a December morning in 2005, more than fifty federal agents stood outside a lovely new home waiting for the front door to be opened. When it did, there stood the central figure in one of the biggest scandals in sports history: Kirk Radomski. Radomski was a regular New York kid who, from the age of fifteen had the amazing fortune of working in the Mets clubhouse. The focus of his job was to give the players whatever they wanted or needed—he got their uniforms ready, packed up their homes at the end of the season, cashed their checks, and helped them beat the drug tests that would have led to suspension. And at the end of the 1986 season he even led the World Champions down Broadway during their victory parade. Eventually, he graduated to helping in other ways: providing them with steroids and human growth hormones. By the time the Feds knocked on his door, he was the main clubhouse supplier of performance-enhancing drugs to almost three hundred baseball players. Under threat of a long prison sentence—and after being identified by players he’d helped—he cooperated with Senator George Mitchell to produce the Mitchell Report, providing names and dates. Now he’s ready to tell the whole story to the world. Radomski made little money from these transactions, and in this stunning book he will recount what baseball knew about the problem, his life since the report came out, and who took what. This is the tale of a young man seeing his heroes turn into clay, and the degradation of a once great sport into the drug-addicted spectacle it has become.
77 Ideas to Go the 2nd Mile for Our Wives!
Author: R. B. Cox
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1594676410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
These are not times for the average marriage! 77 Ideas to go the 2nd Mile for our Wives take our marriage down the path that produces strength and endurance, the highest road of excellence that God has always intended!
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1594676410
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
These are not times for the average marriage! 77 Ideas to go the 2nd Mile for our Wives take our marriage down the path that produces strength and endurance, the highest road of excellence that God has always intended!
Catchers, Cows, & Nachos
Author: Melissa Dudek
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059534626X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Mark Gentry, like every other college student just about to graduate, is facing the most difficult decision of his life: what does he want to be when he grows up? Unlike most other graduating seniors, Mark Gentry is a thirty-one year old former professional baseball player without a notion of what he wants to do. Mark's career counselor proposes agriculture as the answer. Mark's girlfriend believes that the solution lies in a ballpark in Helena, Montana. Catchers, Cows, and Nachos, a sequel to 2001's Wildfire Summer, follows Mark Gentry's adventures in the Big Sky Country as he tries to determine his future on the other side of the backstop. While working undercover on the game-day staff of a baseball team, Mark not only stumbles across the answer to his question, he also learns that life is never more perfect than when one is surrounded by the three C's of baseball.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059534626X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Mark Gentry, like every other college student just about to graduate, is facing the most difficult decision of his life: what does he want to be when he grows up? Unlike most other graduating seniors, Mark Gentry is a thirty-one year old former professional baseball player without a notion of what he wants to do. Mark's career counselor proposes agriculture as the answer. Mark's girlfriend believes that the solution lies in a ballpark in Helena, Montana. Catchers, Cows, and Nachos, a sequel to 2001's Wildfire Summer, follows Mark Gentry's adventures in the Big Sky Country as he tries to determine his future on the other side of the backstop. While working undercover on the game-day staff of a baseball team, Mark not only stumbles across the answer to his question, he also learns that life is never more perfect than when one is surrounded by the three C's of baseball.
Batting Stance Guy
Author: Gar Ryness
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439181721
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Batting Stance Guy never expected he would become a YouTube celebrity, racking up more than two million views, landing profiles in The New York Times and USA Today, and even scoring an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. But when a friend and neighbor started capturing this man’s unusual talents with a video camera, that’s what happened. With uncanny precision, Batting Stance Guy can mimic any baseball player he’s ever seen, and the results will take you back—to the game last night, or last year, or in 1980, or anywhere in-between.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439181721
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Batting Stance Guy never expected he would become a YouTube celebrity, racking up more than two million views, landing profiles in The New York Times and USA Today, and even scoring an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. But when a friend and neighbor started capturing this man’s unusual talents with a video camera, that’s what happened. With uncanny precision, Batting Stance Guy can mimic any baseball player he’s ever seen, and the results will take you back—to the game last night, or last year, or in 1980, or anywhere in-between.
Nine Innings
Author: Lenny Silva
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450239617
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Nine Innings: Life Lessons Learned, written for young student athletes and their parents, contains nine chapters, each referenced to coincide with nine innings of a baseball game. This guide provides practical advice from a father, and baseball coach, to help you and your child become mentally tougher, relying on confidence, courage, competitiveness, and continued improvement in order to achieve success in school, sports, and life. Learn how to find the inner strength to improve your life with a positive attitude and proper goal-setting techniques, while stepping out of your comfort zone. In order to achieve all that you want, it’s important to understand that the behavioral changes that you make today will improve who you are tomorrow. This is best accomplished by focusing your energy on the present. Nine Innings: Life Lessons Learned offers practical advice to help young student athletes—and their parents—become more confident, street-smart, mentally strong, positive, focused, and successful.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450239617
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Nine Innings: Life Lessons Learned, written for young student athletes and their parents, contains nine chapters, each referenced to coincide with nine innings of a baseball game. This guide provides practical advice from a father, and baseball coach, to help you and your child become mentally tougher, relying on confidence, courage, competitiveness, and continued improvement in order to achieve success in school, sports, and life. Learn how to find the inner strength to improve your life with a positive attitude and proper goal-setting techniques, while stepping out of your comfort zone. In order to achieve all that you want, it’s important to understand that the behavioral changes that you make today will improve who you are tomorrow. This is best accomplished by focusing your energy on the present. Nine Innings: Life Lessons Learned offers practical advice to help young student athletes—and their parents—become more confident, street-smart, mentally strong, positive, focused, and successful.
Watching Baseball Smarter
Author: Zack Hample
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307498603
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Zack Hample's bestselling, smart, and funny fan’s guide to baseball explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will appeal to anyone—whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or a beginner. • What is the difference between a slider and a curveball? • At which stadium did “The Wave” first make an appearance? • Which positions are never played by lefties? • Why do some players urinate on their hands? Combining the narrative voice and attitude of Michael Lewis with the compulsive brilliance of Schott’s Miscellany, Watching Baseball Smarter will increase your understanding and enjoyment of the sport—no matter what your level of expertise. Featuring a glossary of baseball slang, an appendix of important baseball stats, and an appendix of uniform numbers.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307498603
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Zack Hample's bestselling, smart, and funny fan’s guide to baseball explains the ins and outs of pitching, hitting, running, and fielding, while offering insider trivia and anecdotes that will appeal to anyone—whether you're a major league couch potato, life-long season ticket-holder, or a beginner. • What is the difference between a slider and a curveball? • At which stadium did “The Wave” first make an appearance? • Which positions are never played by lefties? • Why do some players urinate on their hands? Combining the narrative voice and attitude of Michael Lewis with the compulsive brilliance of Schott’s Miscellany, Watching Baseball Smarter will increase your understanding and enjoyment of the sport—no matter what your level of expertise. Featuring a glossary of baseball slang, an appendix of important baseball stats, and an appendix of uniform numbers.
Grinder
Author: Michael Malachuk
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598583859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The story of a man who lives on the fringe of society, hanging on by a thread. Unable to cope with the tedium of the expected, he is now a misanthrope, sick of it all. Golf, gambling, drinking, drugs, and sex with beautiful women are now his only reasons to get out of bed in the morning. He has problems, but when he finds trouble his life gets interesting. Enjoy his adventure.
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1598583859
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The story of a man who lives on the fringe of society, hanging on by a thread. Unable to cope with the tedium of the expected, he is now a misanthrope, sick of it all. Golf, gambling, drinking, drugs, and sex with beautiful women are now his only reasons to get out of bed in the morning. He has problems, but when he finds trouble his life gets interesting. Enjoy his adventure.
Playing with Tigers
Author: George Gmelch
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803284853
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Growing up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, he knew little of the world outside. Over the next four seasons, he came of age in baseball's Minor Leagues through experiences ranging from learning the craft of the professional game to becoming conscious of race and class for the first time. Playing with Tigers is not a typical baseball memoir. Now a well-known anthropologist, Gmelch recounts a baseball education unlike any other as he got to know small-town life across the United States against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, civil rights protests, and the emergence of the counterculture. The social and political turmoil of the times spilled into baseball, and Gmelch experienced the consequences firsthand as he played out his career in the Jim Crow South. Playing with Tigers captures the gritty, insular, and humorous life and culture of Minor League baseball during a period when both the author and the country were undergoing profound changes. Drawing from journals he kept as a player, letters, and recent interviews with thirty former teammates, coaches, club officials, and even former girlfriends, Gmelch immerses the reader in the life of the Minor Leagues, capturing--in a manner his unique position makes possible--the universal struggle of young athletes trying to make their way.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803284853
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with the Detroit Tigers organization. Growing up sheltered in an all-white, affluent San Francisco suburb, he knew little of the world outside. Over the next four seasons, he came of age in baseball's Minor Leagues through experiences ranging from learning the craft of the professional game to becoming conscious of race and class for the first time. Playing with Tigers is not a typical baseball memoir. Now a well-known anthropologist, Gmelch recounts a baseball education unlike any other as he got to know small-town life across the United States against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, civil rights protests, and the emergence of the counterculture. The social and political turmoil of the times spilled into baseball, and Gmelch experienced the consequences firsthand as he played out his career in the Jim Crow South. Playing with Tigers captures the gritty, insular, and humorous life and culture of Minor League baseball during a period when both the author and the country were undergoing profound changes. Drawing from journals he kept as a player, letters, and recent interviews with thirty former teammates, coaches, club officials, and even former girlfriends, Gmelch immerses the reader in the life of the Minor Leagues, capturing--in a manner his unique position makes possible--the universal struggle of young athletes trying to make their way.