Author: Ron Collins Publisher: Skyfox Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
What would happen if the DNA of Roy Hobbs, Casey at the Bat, and Henry Skrimshander got mixed up with Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, then the whole concoction was thrown into a blender and set on "comic book?" Welcome to baseball, PEBA style. Where the game is global and growing, and where you'll find scandal, love, mystical powers, ghosts, and even perhaps a Russian spy and a Japanese inspector or two. In other words, anything can and does happen. LET'S PLAY THREE! is a boxed set of all three volumes in the PEBA Chronicles (two novels and a short story). It includes: - See the PEBA on $25 a Day - The Mysterious Case of Shojiro Sano's Bats - Chasing the Setting Sun. These stories are like Robert Coover's Universal Baseball Association would be if everything in it was real. Or in an alternate history line. Or a comic book. Or not not. Who can tell? "If you love baseball, you're going to love See the PEBA on $25 a Day." - John Rodriquez, Commissioner of the Planetary Extreme Baseball Alliance
Author: Leeanne M. Krecic Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1952126622 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 208
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She’s young, single and about to achieve her dream of creating incredible video games. But then life throws her a one-two punch: a popular streamer gives her first game a scathing review. Even worse, she finds out that same troublesome critic is now her new neighbor! A funny, sexy, and all-too-real story about gaming, memes, and social anxiety. Come for the plot, stay for the doggo.
Author: Glenn Stout Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618595006 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 460
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A narrative history of the Chicago Cubs journeys inside the once-successful baseball team that has not won a World Series in nearly one hundred years, bringing together more than two hundred photographs with essays by noted fans and sportswriters.
Author: Ritsuko Kawai Publisher: VIZ Media LLC ISBN: 9781569318164 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Hamtaro and the Ham-Ham bunch find a children's playground, but the equipment is too big for them. The decide to build a playground of their own, just the right size.
Author: Nancy McKeithan Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1552128601 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Let's Play Mah Jong! is a self-teaching manual for the novice. It clearly explains the rules of the game, what to do, tips on playing and more.
Author: Leeanne M. Krecic Publisher: Rocketship Entertainment ISBN: 9781952126116 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
She’s young, single and about to achieve her dream of creating incredible video games. But then life throws her a one-two punch: a popular streamer gives her first game a scathing review. Even worse, she finds out that same troublesome critic is now her new neighbor! A funny, sexy, and all-too-real story about gaming, memes, and social anxiety. Come for the plot, stay for the doggo. Volume 1 of Let's Play collects the first 23 chapters of the Eisner-nominated webcomic phenomenon with over 5 million subscribers. "Filled with instantly relatable characters, Let's Play speaks to the gamer, hopeless romantic or nerd in all of us. We all know a Sam, a Marshall or a Link, they feel like our friends and the world they live in feels welcoming to anyone who experiences it. Reading Let's Play reminds me of the comfort of coming home after a long trip." -- Jace Milam, The Comic Source
Author: Ron Rapoport Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 0316318647 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 464
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The definitive and revealing biography of Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks, one of America's most iconic, beloved, and misunderstood baseball players, by acclaimed journalist Ron Rapoport. Ernie Banks, the first-ballot Hall of Famer and All-Century Team shortstop, played in fourteen All-Star Games, won two MVPs, and twice led the Major Leagues in home runs and runs batted in. He outslugged Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Mickey Mantle when they were in their prime, but while they made repeated World Series appearances in the 1950s and 60s, Banks spent his entire career with the woebegone Chicago Cubs, who didn't win a pennant in his adult lifetime. Today, Banks is remembered best for his signature phrase, "Let's play two," which has entered the American lexicon and exemplifies the enthusiasm that endeared him to fans everywhere. But Banks's public display of good cheer was a mask that hid a deeply conflicted, melancholy, and often quite lonely man. Despite the poverty and racism he endured as a young man, he was among the star players of baseball's early days of integration who were reluctant to speak out about Civil Rights. Being known as one of the greatest players never to reach the World Series also took its toll. At one point, Banks even saw a psychiatrist to see if that would help. It didn't. Yet Banks smiled through it all, enduring the scorn of Cubs manager Leo Durocher as an aging superstar and never uttering a single complaint. Let's Play Two is based on numerous conversations with Banks and on interviews with more than a hundred of his family members, teammates, friends, and associates as well as oral histories, court records, and thousands of other documents and sources. Together, they explain how Banks was so different from the caricature he created for the public. The book tells of Banks's early life in segregated Dallas, his years in the Negro Leagues, and his difficult life after retirement; and features compelling portraits of Buck O'Neil, Philip K. Wrigley, the Bleacher Bums, the doomed pennant race of 1969, and much more from a long-lost baseball era.
Author: Jonathan Hicks Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1847536697 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 190
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Jonathan Hicks, published twice in the British Science Fiction Association's writer's magazine 'FOCUS' and the mission designer/dialogue writer of the mobile telephone game of acclaimed television show 'Battlestar Galactica', presents twelve short stories about the little people in the big universe. "I grew up with the grandiose science fiction tales, in books and on film, with great galaxy-spanning adventures or life-changing technologies," said Jonathan Hicks. "In this book I concentrate on the 'little guy', the people who work behind the scenes and those who get a less than stellar deal out of the supposed adventure travelling the galaxy and exploring new technologies offers." Click on the 'preview this book' under the cover picture above to find out more about these stories. Contains strong language and some violence
Author: Doug Wilson Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538112302 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 266
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When Ernie Banks passed away in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs. Known affectionately as “Mr. Cub,” he brought exceptional talent and boundless optimism to the game of baseball, earning him a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a place in the Hall of Fame. In Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks, Doug Wilson explores the life of one of baseball’s most immortal figures, from his humble beginnings as a young boy living in the segregated South to his last few years and the public battles over his remains and will. Drawing on interviews of those close to Banks from all stages of his life, Wilson presents a portrait of the baseball player not just as an athlete, but also as a complex man with ambitious goals and hidden pains. Ernie Banks’s enthusiasm and skill transcended issues of race and helped him to become one of the most highly-regarded men in baseball. Offering details that have never before been printed, this book discusses Banks’s athletic prowess as well as the legacy he left behind. Let’s Play Two is the essential Ernie Banks biography for sports fans and historians alike.
Author: Harsha Bhogle Publisher: Penguin Books India ISBN: 0143331590 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 192
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Get ready for some fabulous fun with these action-packed stories from the sports field! Fancied Orchid School is already 33 for no loss in the three overs before lunch. Can Model School successfully unleash its secret weapon, Anshuman the chess nerd, and win the match? The two towns of Dilshan and Deewar have their prides at stake at the annual kabaddi competition, and when Lt. Aaron, owner of Tasty Buds and baker of delectable cakes, announces he will eat his hat if his town actually wins, it spurs the Dilshan-ites to greater heights. Neeru decides to start playing hockey like her mother to deal with her loss, and discovers there's no therapy like getting some dirt on her spotless whites. Hockey, TT, cricket, golf, basketball; winners, losers, underdogs, bullies, heroes and cheats, Let's Play! The Puffin Book of Sports Stories has them all, and more. Funny, uplifting and moving, this unique collection vividly portrays the heartbreaks and triumphs that are an essential part of playing sports, and is an absolute must-read.
Author: Ron Collins
Author: Leeanne M. Krecic
Author: Glenn Stout
Author: Ritsuko Kawai
Author: Nancy McKeithan
Author: Leeanne M. Krecic
Author: Ron Rapoport
Author: Jonathan Hicks
Author: Doug Wilson
Author: Harsha Bhogle