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Author: Keith Baker Publisher: eBook Partnership ISBN: 1785310267 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 184
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The long-overlooked story of a number of adventurous Britons who left their homeland before World War I to inspire and shape the growth of modern soccer in continental Europe and South America. Drawn from widely different backgrounds, their motivations and contributions were diverse-helping to form legendary clubs now supported by millions across the globe; bringing revolutionary changes to the way soccer was taught and played; and laying the foundations on which the game would continue to flourish. Full of entertaining accounts and anecdotes from the birth of the global game, Fathers of Football places the lives of these innovators soundly in historical and social context. They all left a deep and lasting impression on soccer in the countries they worked in; yet for too long Britain turned its back on their lessons and achievements. Even today they remain largely unknown-prophets more honored abroad than at home.
Author: Keith Baker Publisher: eBook Partnership ISBN: 1785310267 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 184
Book Description
The long-overlooked story of a number of adventurous Britons who left their homeland before World War I to inspire and shape the growth of modern soccer in continental Europe and South America. Drawn from widely different backgrounds, their motivations and contributions were diverse-helping to form legendary clubs now supported by millions across the globe; bringing revolutionary changes to the way soccer was taught and played; and laying the foundations on which the game would continue to flourish. Full of entertaining accounts and anecdotes from the birth of the global game, Fathers of Football places the lives of these innovators soundly in historical and social context. They all left a deep and lasting impression on soccer in the countries they worked in; yet for too long Britain turned its back on their lessons and achievements. Even today they remain largely unknown-prophets more honored abroad than at home.
Author: Andrew H. Malcolm Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 216
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"This is a very personal book, a shared remembrance, about sports and sons and fathers, about youth and lost youth and teamwork - written by a former little boy who watches his own son captain a school football team. Huddle is about the ultimate home team: the touching story of three generations of one family linked by the game of football. Contrary to some popular notions, Huddle shows that modern male bonding is possible through play, not battle. Indeed, nowhere in this intimate account does anyone incite aggression with "Football is war." Football is, instead, life. The players here are boys. Their guides and mentors are men, who huddle with their eager, padded charges to pass on the rules of life through a game. The task at hand is doing your best, which, like as not, is better than you thought. From that beautifully simple formula comes highly complex behavior: cooperation, daring, open admissions of self-doubt, even creativity. Sometimes winning. Sometimes not." "But more importantly, this is a book about learning how to be a person, and how those lessons are passed from father to son, to son, to son. For the author, the process began on the blurry screen of a tiny black-and-white Dumont television in the 1950s with Ohio State - the good guys - defending their turf. Here was something new. No bats. No bases. It took Dad, the engineer, to disassemble this bizarre and foreign ritual in a kind of Socratic sports seminar. Before long, a young Andrew Malcolm had found his own way into the linebacking corps of the team at high school. And a generation later, other young Malcolm males take to familiar fields to begin the process anew. And so on."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Stuart Stevens Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0804172501 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 226
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Fathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native South to spend a special autumn with his ninety-five-year-old dad, sharing the unique joys, disappointments, and life lessons of Saturdays with their beloved Ole Miss Rebels. Now, driving to and from the games, and cheering from the stands, they take stock of their lives as father and son, and as individuals, reminding themselves of their unique, complicated, precious bond. Poignant and full of heart, but also irreverent and often hilarious, The Last Season is a powerful story of parents and children and of the importance of taking a backward glance together while you still can.
Author: Frank Berrios Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0385379250 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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This informational LGB is also a touching tribute to the lessons we learn from our fathers! Every Sunday, a boy and his dad watch the big football game on TV, and then go outside to play it. In this simple introduction to the game, the emphasis is on playing safely and having fun.
Author: Benjamin Watson Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1493404962 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 175
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When it comes to the unknown territory of having a baby, moms-to-be have nearly unending resources to plan and execute a healthy pregnancy and navigate those first months and years as a parent with confidence. New dads? Not so much. They want to get in the game too, but, says Super Bowl champion Benjamin Watson, "I could find clearer direction for putting together a baby swing than for taking care of a newborn child." The New Dad's Playbook is every man's game plan to being the best partner and the best father, from pre-season (preparing for fatherhood) to Super Bowl (birth) to post-season (after baby is home). It helps men understand what their wives are going through physically and emotionally during and after pregnancy, allowing them to support their most important teammate. It tells men what to expect when their baby is home--and what to do when the unexpected happens. This tell-it-like-it-is book will take men from just winging it to winning it.
Author: Jacqueline Woodson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399545441 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 177
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WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed, and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. Now in paperback. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?
Author: Rob Kenney Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063075032 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 230
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“Like the YouTube channel, this is a touching yet informative guide for those seeking fatherly advice, or even a few good dad jokes.” — Library Journal
Author: Jeffrey Marx Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416584811 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 176
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The bestselling inspirational book in which the author reunites with a childhood football hero, now a minister and coach, and witnesses a revelatory demonstration of the true meaning of manhood—Season of Life is a book that “should be required reading for every high school student in America and every parent as well” (Carl Lewis, Olympic champion). Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann. Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a scoreboard. Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he’d ever seen, where players say “I love you” to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamine his own unresolved relationship with his father. Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents—anyone struggling to make the right choices in life.
Author: Keith Baker
Author: Keith Baker
Author: Andrew H. Malcolm
Author: Stuart Stevens
Author: Frank Berrios
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Author: Benjamin Watson
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
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Author: Rob Kenney
Author: Jeffrey Marx