Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780590479752
A team of youngsters takes on a crew of extraterrestrials determined to learn the game of baseball. Original.
Author : Robert Lipsyte
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0061997358
Mike has his junior year well under control. He's got a solid group of friends. He's dating Lori, one of the hottest girls in school. And Coach Cody has all but given him the starting spot as the Ridgedale Rangers' varsity center fielder. And then Oscar Ramirez shows up. Oscar is an amazing ballplayer, as talented at the plate as he is in center field, and it's not long before Mike loses control. He's on the bench, he's getting into fights, and he finds himself in weekend detention with Katherine Herold, the most mysterious, abrasive, alluring girl in school. Mike is lost, confused, and looking to Coach Cody to help him get back on track. But the coach has his own set of rules for Mike to play by, and the decisions Mike makes are going to impact more than just the starting lineup. Robert Lipsyte, one of the most celebrated writers in young adult literature, has crafted a subtly intense tale of adolescent struggle, a sports story about much more than sports—one that shows us how the moves one makes off the field matter even more than the moves one has on it.
Author : James R. Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803248253
This work explores how the new medium of television changed America's pastime and traces the sometimes contentious but mutually beneficial relationship between baseball and television, from the first televised game in 1939 to the modern-day world of Internet broadcasts, satellite radio, and high-definition television. Original.
Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599533170
Baseball player Jose Mendez worries about his poor performance with the bat and fears disappointing his father, a former ballplayer with an outstanding batting average.
Author : John Sexton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1101609737
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795311710
The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books “If you build it, he will come.” When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken in the voice of an Iowa baseball announcer, he is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield. It is a tribute to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. What follows is a timeless story that is “not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “A triumph of hope.” —The Boston Globe “A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature.” —Sports Illustrated
Author : Michael Pemberton
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 087421484X
In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and financial challenges, and writing centers, in order to hold and extend their contribution to research, teaching, and service, must continuously engage those challenges. Appropriately, the editors offer the work of Muriel Harris as a key pivot point in the emergence of writing centers as sites of pedagogy and research. The volume develops themes that Harris first brought to the field, and contributors here offer explicit recognition of the role that Harris has played in the development of writing center theory and practice. But they also use her work as a springboard from which to provide reflective, descriptive, and predictive looks at the field.
Author : Dan Epstein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1250007240
Epstein takes readers on a funky ride through baseball and America in the swinging '70s in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade. Includes 8-page photo insert.
Author : Hal Higdon
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9780590620116
After Oscar the horse began playing center field, the New York Goats, worst team in the major leagues, seemed certain to win the World Series, and then--Oscar was horse-naped.
Author : Louis Saulino
Publisher : Xlibris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781465307231
