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Baseball in '41: A Celebration of the "Best Baseball Season Ever"
Robert W. Creamer - 1991
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Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life In the Minor Leagues of Baseball
John Feinstein - 2014
. . a riveting journey through the world of minor-league baseball“No one grows up playing baseball pretending that they’re pitching or hitting in Triple-A.” —Chris Schwinden, Triple-A pitcher“If you don’t like it here, do a better job.” —Ron Johnson, Triple-A managerJohn Feinstein gave readers an unprecedented view of the PGA Tour in A Good Walk Spoiled. He opened the door to an NCAA basketball locker room in his explosive bestseller A Season on the Brink. Now, turning his eye to our national pastime, sports journalist John Feinstein explores the colorful and mysterious world of minor-league baseball—a gateway through which all major-league players pass in their careers . . . hoping never to return. Baseball’s minor leagues are a paradox. For some players, the minors are a glorious launching pad toward years of fame and fortune; for others, a crash-landing pad when injury or poor play forces a big leaguer back to a life of obscure ballparks and cramped buses instead of Fenway Park and plush charter planes. Focusing exclusively on the Triple-A level, one step beneath Major League Baseball, Feinstein introduces readers to nine unique men: three pitchers, three position players, two managers, and an umpire. Through their compelling stories, Feinstein pulls back the veil on a league that is chock-full of gifted baseball players, managers, and umpires who are all one moment away from getting called up—or back—to the majors. The stories are hard to believe: a first-round draft pick and pitching ace who rocketed to major-league success before finding himself suddenly out of the game, hatching a presumptuous plan to get one more shot at the mound; a home run–hitting former World Series hero who lived the dream, then bounced among six teams before facing the prospects of an unceremonious end to his career; a big-league All-Star who, in the span of five months, went from being completely out of baseball to becoming a star in the ALDS, then signing a $10 million contract; and a well-liked designated hitter who toiled for eighteen seasons in the minors—a record he never wanted to set—before facing his final, highly emotional chance for a call-up to the big leagues. From Raleigh to Pawtucket, from Lehigh Valley to Indianapolis and beyond, Where Nobody Knows Your Name gives readers an intimate look at a baseball world not normally seen by the fans. John Feinstein gets to the heart of the human stories in a uniquely compelling way, crafting a masterful book that stands alongside his very best works.
Survival Handbook for Minecraft: Master Survival in Minecraft: Unofficial Minecraft Guide (MineGuides)
BlockBoy - 2014
There are so many facets to the game and so much depth that while everyone plays and enjoys the game, not everyone has knowledge of the amazing possibilities. There are little known tips and tricks and sometime tested wisdom accrued by veteran players that not everyone is privy to.With this guide you will learn all this and more. Not only will it make you enjoy the game more, but it will also let you become the master of the Minecraft world. A survivor who can get through any hardship be it a Zombie invasion in the middle of the night or a Creeper ambush where you least expect it. Or if you are playing on a SMP server with open PvP combat, this guide will even help you get the upper hand there. In all this, the guide does assume that you have a basic working knowledge of the game and know the simple things like crafting weapons and building simple bases.So whether you are just a casual player looking for a fun time, or a hardcore gamer looking to be the next Bear Grylls of the world of Minecraft, either way, I am certain you will find this guide a fun and informative companion through your days in the enchanting world of Minecraft. Scroll Up, Click "Buy Now" and Master Survival in Minecraft
Minecraft Seeds: 50 Incredible Minecraft Seeds You Must Use
Michael Marlon - 2015
You’re about to discover how to use seeds to unlock amazing worlds for you to discover, as well as create some of your own! Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Find... Seeds to use for PC, Playstation, and Xbox Many worlds to explore Beautiful, inhospitable terrain to survive Entire worlds build on a cache of wealth Hidden strongholds Monsters! Loot! Much, much more! Don’t wait – Download this book and begin exploring some of the most interesting worlds Minecraft has to offer NOW!
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The Honest King and Other Stories (Stories for Children Series #4)
D.R. Tara - 2014
These five stories comprise Volume 4 of ‘Illustrated Moral Stories for Children Series’. All the stories fall in the following main categories: myths and legends series, moral stories for kids, childrens books by age 5-8, fairy tales for teens, kids books ages 9 12, self-read childrens ebooks, and kindle books for kids 9-12. These five illustrated moral stories are included in this book: Story 1: Prince Rayner Story 2: The Honest King Story 3: Ball in the Well Story 4: When Mountains Bowed Story 5: Thirst for Knowledge These stories can be read and enjoyed by all ages and all cultures. Each story has a moral at the end, and they are appropriate to read to children at bedtime. PLEASE ALSO CHECK OUT BOOKS 1, 2, 3 AND 5 IN THE ‘ILLUSTRATED MORAL STORIES FOR CHILDREN SERIES’. THESE BOOKS, BY BEST SELLING AUTHOR, D. R. TARA, ARE ENTITLED AS FOLLOWS: BOOK 1: STARS IN THE POOL AND OTHER STORIES BOOK 2: TRUE FRIENDS AND OTHER STORIES BOOK 3: JUDGE MONKEY AND OTHER STORIES BOOK 5: FLYING ELEPHANTS AND OTHER STORIES A summary of Amazon Reader Reviews of 'Children's Book: “The Honest King and Other Stories" (Kids Books Ages 9-12) Short Stories Collections and bedtime story books for kids by all ages, folklore myths and legends': "..excellent set of kids picture adventure books...kids short stories. My children...love childrens picture books for kindle...great bedtime story books for kids by all ages..good kids picture books and kids books by age 5-8." "..enjoyed the illustrated moral stories for kids series..great kids illustrated book...an ideal bed time story book..kids of all ages will enjoy." "...wonderful bedtime story for children of all ages...childrens folklore myths and legends." "..liked this collections of kids short stories...great bedtime story books for kids by all ages, kids picture adventure books." "..love these kids picture adventure books and kids short stories..folklore myths and legends...the best childrens picture books for kindle..great kids books by age 5-8 and the best childrens books by ages 9-12." "...kids short stories about folklore, myths and legends..bedtime story books for kids of all ages or childrens picture books for kindle...really good kids picture books." "..good as delivering kids picture adventure books as the other folklore, myths, and legends in the previous books in the series...appropriate as a bedtime story book for kids by all ages...kids short stories..great addition to our collection of childrens picture books for Kindle." "The stories combine elements of Eastern and Western cultures, which is a good way to introduce children to new cultures and values."
You Will Sail Through
Abhishek Bhargava - 2020
You Will Sail Through” is a story about Anubha, the protagonist, a young millennial in her mid-twenties, who got dumped by her boyfriend, Ashish.Anubha decides to end her life by committing suicide amidst the beaches of Pondicherry.She ends up meeting Abhishek, the author of this book, who narrates her the “millennials’ things”.The millennials' things revolve around the rationale of “Why we go through, what we go through, and what has to be done to overcome whatever we go through,” answering the millennials’ generation's questions.Be it Mithali, Debanjana, Maddy, or as many as other twenty-six millennials about which the author narrates, they all found it difficult to sail through in their lives in one area or the other they all sailed through in the end.What were those twenty-six millennials going through in their lives?How those twenty-six millennials who found it almost impossible in the beginning sailed through in the end?What did the author narrate to Anubha, which not only sailed her through those throbbing sea waves at the beaches of Pondicherry but also sailed her through the emotional turmoil she was going through and led her finding the lost purpose in her life.This October,Come, Read an exciting, thrilling, and a humorous book inspired by the real-life events of millennials and learn the Art of Sailing Through.Remember, “You Will Sail Through”“Sail Through,” What??“Whatever you are going through!"
None of My Affair: The Wedding of the Year. The Scandal of the Decade.
Fiona O'Brien - 2017
O'Brien never puts a foot wrong' Irish Independent IT'S THE WEDDING OF THE YEARSupermodel Ali Armstrong will tie the knot on board luxury knot Excalibur, surrounded by her closest friends and family.AND THE SCANDAL OF THE DECADEBut as the guests descend on Puerto Banus for the festivities, tensions and secrets rise to the surface.Will Ali's mother, Carrie, finally accept the end of her own marriage? Can her sister, Hope, forget her broken heart and learn to trust again? Will Jay see off the Russian temptress and hang on to her millionaire husband?When the sun sets on the azure waters of the Med, the privileged world of the Armstrongs is blown sky high...'Delicious ... full of warmth, glamour and excitment' Cathy Kelly
Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life
Ron Darling - 2016
Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In Game 7, 1986, the award-winning baseball analyst looks back at what might have been a signature moment in his career, and reflects on the ways professional athletes must sometimes shoulder a personal disappointment as his team finds a way to win. Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the 1986 New York Mets championship season, Darling's book will break down one of baseball's great "forgotten" games - a game that stands as a thrilling, telling and tantalizing exclamation point to one of the best-remember seasons in Major League Baseball history. Working once again with New York Times best-selling collaborator Daniel Paisner, who teamed with the former All-Star pitcher on his acclaimed 2009 memoir Game 7, 1986, Darling offers a book for the thinking baseball fan, a chance to reflect on what it means to compete at the game's highest level, with everything on the line.
Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era
Tim Elfrink - 2014
Elfrink revealed that a Miami clinic, Biogenesis, had been supplying illegal performance enhancing drugs – PEDs – to many of the nation’s top baseball stars. One name stood out among all the others: Alex Rodriguez, the highest-earning player in the game.Over the next year and more the story would unravel with incredible details about tanning salon robberies, coded text messages, and furtive steroid injections in the men’s room. In late 2013 Alex Rodriguez would be hit with the longest suspension in MLB history, prompting an ugly fight between him and top league brass. Fourteen other players, including superstar Ryan Braun, were also given shorter suspensions. Tony Bosch, Biogenesis’s founder, would appear on 60 Minutes in an effort to tell his side of the story.What’s already been reported in the press has been fascinating; but the story behind the headlines that Elfrink and Newsday reporter Gus Garcia-Roberts have unearthed is even more dramatic and full of new, shocking details. Using exclusive documents, never-before-reported records and interviews with top sources, this book takes the reader inside drug deals, athletes’ mansions, and confidential suspension hearings to tell the true story behind the sport’s continuing PED crisis.Both news-breaking sports journalism and wild South Florida noir, Blood Sport is simultaneously a revelatory record of the steroid and PED era’s continuing evolution and a call to arms for how to end it – this time, for good.
Extra Innings: More Baseball Between the Numbers from the Team at Baseball Prospectus
Baseball Prospectus - 2012
Sixteen years later, the Baseball Prospectus annual regularly hits best-seller lists and has become an indispensable guide for the serious fan. In Extra Innings, the team at Baseball Prospectus integrates statistics, interviews, and analysis to deliver twenty arguments about today’s game. In the tradition of their seminal book, Baseball Between the Numbers, they take on everything from steroids to the amateur draft. They probe the impact of managers on the game. They explain the critical art of building a bullpen. In an era when statistics matter more than ever, Extra Innings is an essential volume for every baseball fan.
The Wild Card
Teresa Crane - 2000
With them is Mary McCarthy and her volatile son, Liam. All is well until the arrival of Siobhan’s husband George. A man of strong views and even stronger temper, he browbeats his gentle wife, belittles his daughter Christine and treats Liam like a servant…A year later, on a visit to Ireland, Liam unexpectedly comes face to face with the father he has never known. Liam wants nothing to do with him, but when George Clough throws him out, he has little choice but to enter his father’s dangerous world of Irish politics…As the Clough children grow up they each react to their domineering father in different ways, and his daughter Christine finds herself attracted to the man her father would disapprove of above all others, the wild card Liam McCarthy…
Perfect for fans of Emily Gunnis, Fiona Valpy
and
Santa Montefiore, The Wild Card is an intensely gripping and unforgettable read.
Nobody's Perfect: Two Men, One Call, and a Game for Baseball History
Armando Galarraga - 2011
No hits, no walks, no men reaching base. In nearly four hundred thousand contests in more than 130 years of Major League Baseball, it has only happened twenty times. On June 2, 2010, Armando Galarraga threw baseball’s twenty-first perfect game. Except that’s not how it entered the record books.That’s because Jim Joyce, a veteran umpire with more than twenty years of big league experience, the man voted the best umpire in the game in 2010 by baseball’s players, missed the call on the final out at first base. “No, I did not get the call correct,” Joyce said after seeing a replay. But rather than throw a tantrum, Galarraga simply turned and smiled, went back to the mound and took care of business. “Nobody’s perfect,” he said later in the locker room.In Nobody’s Perfect, Galarraga and Joyce come together to tell the personal story of a remarkable game that will live forever in baseball lore, and to trace their fascinating lives in sports up until this pivotal moment. It is an absorbing insider’s look at two lives in baseball, a tremendous achievement, and an enduring moment of sportsmanship.
Lights Of London
Gilda O'Neill - 1998
Until the feisty young prostitute, Tibs Tyler, takes her under her wing, and the two girls, one dark, one fair, set themselves up as a music hall act. As they desperately try to break free from Tibs's violent pimp, and to avoid the educated and wealthy yet sinister Dr Tressing, they are also hoping to make a new life for themselves as the new century breaks.
Little Girl Lost
Val Wood - 2015
Her adored father often travelled by sea to the Netherlands, leaving her with an unaffectionate mother and only her imagination of a little Dutch girl, Annelise, to keep her company. When devastation ravages her tiny family. Annelise becomes the comforting friend Margriet needs for a long time to come.A few years later, Margriet is blossoming into a kind young lady. Keen to escape her mother and strike out on her own, she forms an unlikely friendship with some of the street children who roam the town. As Margriet acts upon her inspiration to help them, will the troubles of her past break her spirit, or will she be able to overcome them?If you've liked books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heart-rending stories of triumph over adversity.
TWINS : Part One - Books 1, 2 & 3: Books for Girls 9 - 12
Katrina Kahler - 2017
Usually, it would be fun to have a new girl arrive. But not this time!When Casey realizes that Ali looks exactly like her, she is not at all impressed. To make matters even worse, Casey's crush, a boy named Jake Hanley and the coolest boy in the grade, takes a sudden interest in Ali, and Casey becomes more annoyed than ever. "Who is she and why does she have my face?" This is one of the many questions that Casey asks and she is determined to find out the answer. However, she is not at all prepared for the outcome. Within a matter of days, her world as she once knew it is turned upside down and the decisions she makes lead to consequences beyond her control. This is a fabulous series for girls aged 9-12 and is certain to become a new favorite. School friendships, boy crushes, drama, and excitement combine together to create a suspenseful and enjoyable story that you will not be able to put down.