Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9781578661572
An irreverent look at a side of baseball not usually found on the sports pages, with more than 700 entries and 70 lists
Author : Art Graham
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 2178 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1546234675
Growing technology and affluence, rock n roll, baseball, and muscle carsall told through the youth and early adult years of a small-town Montana boy and war veteran. This is a history of the glorious 50s and 60s in America. It is a history also of politicians, the indecency of segregation and war, and the struggle for racial equality and peace. A history of two great nations. Intertwined is the unique history of Vietnam and the Vietnamese long struggle for independence. It is a rendering also of the unique culture of Vietnam with fascinating stories of emperors within the walls of a Forbidden City. Included in the book is a review of the relationship of two nationsone mighty and one resistantultimately entangled in a catastrophic war. Nearly fifty-nine thousand Americans lost to family,friends, wives, and lovers. More than two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians perished in a war that could not be won.
Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2001-10-31
Category : Olympics
ISBN : 1597973971
Dive into amusing Olympic moments both high and low
Author : John Snyder
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1612340520
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first World Series with The World Series Most Wanted M/i>. You'll find fascinating facts, oddball tales, and record-breaking achievements from that initial World Series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates all the way up to the 2003 World Series. The next in a long line of vaunted Most Wanted books from Potomac. THE The World Series Most Wanted tells the tale of October glory and heartbreak, of heroes and goats, and of the thin line between success and failure on baseball's grandest stage. With a hopping sixty top-ten lists.
Author : Francesca Peppiatt
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2004-02-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1612342418
With country music as popular as ever-what other form of music has been honored on an official state quarter?-Country Music's Most WantedOao hits the stage to bring you tales of country musicOCOs famous and infamous.Alan Jackson delivered mail to Hee Hawbefore he made it big. Garth Brooks was booed off the stage during an eleventh-grade talent show. Kris Kristofferson landed a borrowed helicopter on Johnny CashOCOs lawn so he could pitch Cash a song. YouOCOll read about Vernon Dalhart, Kenny Chesney, Hank Williams, the Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, the Carters, the Cashes, the Webbs, and so many more artists of yesterday and today. With more than fifty lists, Country Music's Most WantedOao gives you those stories and people plus fun discussions of the best train songs, phone call songs, humorous songs, and tequila songs (you provide the salt and limes).Country musicOCOs vibrant past, successful present, and bright future are all represented in this humorous look at the stars and legends of Music City. From the first million-selling record in 1924 to the songs you heard on the radio last night, Country Music's Most WantedOao has a tractor-full of fun country music trivia!"
Author : R. L. Stine
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545630940
Goosebumps now on Disney+! Ray Gordon really likes the circus. His uncle, Theo, is a performer in Koko's Klown Academy and he invites Ray to come join him for the summer. At first, Ray's parents are reluctant-they know their son has a habit of getting himself into strange situations. But Ray manages to convince them that he'll be on his best behavior. The circus itself is very cool. The clowns stay in their makeup all day and only go by their clown names. Ray becomes a clown-in-training named Mr. Belly-Bounce. But the longer he's there, the scarier things become. There are whisperings about a place called Clown Street and nobody, including Murder the Clown, wants to go there. Will Ray be able to survive the dark secrets of the circus?
Author : Aaron D. Cushman
Publisher : Lighthouse Point Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0963796615
Author : Joel S. Franks
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786432918
With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Japan. Less widely known is that baseball has long been played on other Pacific islands, in pre-statehood Hawaii, for instance, and in Guam, Samoa and the Philippines. For the multiethnic peoples of these U.S. possessions, the learning of baseball was actively encouraged, some would argue as a means to an unabashedly colonialist end. As early as the deadball era, Pacific Islanders competed against each other and against mainlanders on the diamond, with teams like the Hawaiian Travelers barnstorming the States, winning more than they lost against college, semi-pro, and even professional nines. For those who moved to the mainland, baseball eased the transition, helping Asian Pacific Americans create a sense of community and purpose, cross cultural borders, and--for a few--achieve fame.
Author : Justin McRoberts
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0525653082
Combining prayers in two languages--words and images--this contemporary prayer guide will help you spend time in conversation with God. As people of faith, we all struggle at times to sustain a flourishing prayer life--a loss felt all the more keenly in these times of confusion, political turbulence, and global calamity. This unique book offers a timeless solution for the spiritual and skeptical alike. Combining story-driven reflections with visual and written prayers, this simple 40-day prayer guide will help you reconnect with God as you rediscover your own ongoing conversation with Him. Using the familiar refrains in the Lord's Prayer as a guide, this groundbreaking resource invites you to reconnect with God creatively and organically.
Author : Jeff Pullen
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Drew Charlesworth--an accomplished mathematical genius working on a medical experiment with his partner Dr. Kingsly, creating a computerized prosthesis to be one day fused with its human subject--was also gifted with an unusual ability to hit a baseball. This skill, once he reached the major league, thrust him into the limelight, exposing his other work, which angered political and religious Conservatives. This is a story how Drew had to navigate the worlds of not only baseball and medicine but politics and big business, eventually having to make tough decisions.
