Author: Rick Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929915616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Runner UP Nashville Book Festival Best General Fiction Finalist Indie Book Awards for Best General Fiction USA News Best Book Award Finalist for Best Thriller/Adventure Honorable Mention New England Book Festival Honorable Mention Hollywood Book Festivals Author on tour with Paradies Airport stores nationwide Second in his series of political thrillers, Sniper Bid takes the reader into the world of baseball, steroids and politics.
Killing the Curse
Author: Dennis Hetzel
Publisher: Publisher Page
ISBN: 9780938467991
Category : Baseball fans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Chicago Cubs haven't won a World Series for more than 100 years or even played in one since 1945. Now they're positioned to win the Series for the first time since 1908 - if only curses and bad luck don't haunt them as usual. That's what happens when a swarm of gnats helps the Boston Red Sox tie the Series at three games each. No one wants the Cubs to win more than Luke Murphy, President of the United States and lifelong fan. Leading the disbelievers is Murphy's boyhood friend, Bob Walters, a sports radio talk-show host with a beautiful daughter and a big ego who built ratings by being "the man Cub fans love to hate." The Cubs have someone else on their side -- a brilliant, crazed fan who will do anything to make sure they win, anything. It starts with an attack on the father of Boston's best pitcher and grows into an escalating threat that could destroy Murphy's career, expose childhood secrets, and kill hundreds of innocent people. Everything comes to a head as Game Seven unfolds -- a game the Cubs must win no matter what.
Publisher: Publisher Page
ISBN: 9780938467991
Category : Baseball fans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Chicago Cubs haven't won a World Series for more than 100 years or even played in one since 1945. Now they're positioned to win the Series for the first time since 1908 - if only curses and bad luck don't haunt them as usual. That's what happens when a swarm of gnats helps the Boston Red Sox tie the Series at three games each. No one wants the Cubs to win more than Luke Murphy, President of the United States and lifelong fan. Leading the disbelievers is Murphy's boyhood friend, Bob Walters, a sports radio talk-show host with a beautiful daughter and a big ego who built ratings by being "the man Cub fans love to hate." The Cubs have someone else on their side -- a brilliant, crazed fan who will do anything to make sure they win, anything. It starts with an attack on the father of Boston's best pitcher and grows into an escalating threat that could destroy Murphy's career, expose childhood secrets, and kill hundreds of innocent people. Everything comes to a head as Game Seven unfolds -- a game the Cubs must win no matter what.
Sniper Bid
Author: Rick Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929915616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Runner UP Nashville Book Festival Best General Fiction Finalist Indie Book Awards for Best General Fiction USA News Best Book Award Finalist for Best Thriller/Adventure Honorable Mention New England Book Festival Honorable Mention Hollywood Book Festivals Author on tour with Paradies Airport stores nationwide Second in his series of political thrillers, Sniper Bid takes the reader into the world of baseball, steroids and politics.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780929915616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Runner UP Nashville Book Festival Best General Fiction Finalist Indie Book Awards for Best General Fiction USA News Best Book Award Finalist for Best Thriller/Adventure Honorable Mention New England Book Festival Honorable Mention Hollywood Book Festivals Author on tour with Paradies Airport stores nationwide Second in his series of political thrillers, Sniper Bid takes the reader into the world of baseball, steroids and politics.
Branch Rickey
Author:
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803224537
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881?1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport?not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey?the man sportswriters dubbed ?The Brain,? ?The Mahatma,? and, on occasion, ?El Cheapo??Lee Lowenfish tells the full, colorful story of a life that forever changed the face of America?s game. From 1917 to 1942, Rickey was the mastermind behind the Saint Louis Cardinals who enabled small-market clubs to compete with the rich and powerful by creating the farm system . Under his direction in the 1940s, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first true ?America?s team.? By signing Jackie Robinson and other black players, he single-handedly thrust baseball into the forefront of the civil rights movement. Lowenfish evokes the peculiarly American complex of God, family, and baseball that informed Rickey?s actions and his accomplishments. His book offers an intriguing, richly detailed portrait of a man whose life is itself a crucial chapter in the history of American business, sport, and society.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803224537
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881?1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized the sport?not just once but three times. In this definitive biography of Rickey?the man sportswriters dubbed ?The Brain,? ?The Mahatma,? and, on occasion, ?El Cheapo??Lee Lowenfish tells the full, colorful story of a life that forever changed the face of America?s game. From 1917 to 1942, Rickey was the mastermind behind the Saint Louis Cardinals who enabled small-market clubs to compete with the rich and powerful by creating the farm system . Under his direction in the 1940s, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first true ?America?s team.? By signing Jackie Robinson and other black players, he single-handedly thrust baseball into the forefront of the civil rights movement. Lowenfish evokes the peculiarly American complex of God, family, and baseball that informed Rickey?s actions and his accomplishments. His book offers an intriguing, richly detailed portrait of a man whose life is itself a crucial chapter in the history of American business, sport, and society.
Rickey and Robinson
Author: Harvey Frommer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 163076003X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie’s widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 163076003X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie’s widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.
Baseball's Great Experiment
Author: Jules Tygiel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195106206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195106206
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Offers a history of African American exclusion from baseball, and assesses the changing racial attitudes that led up to Jackie Robinson's acceptance by the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Brooks Robinson
Author: Rick Wolff
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN: 9780791011867
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A biography of the Oriole third baseman whose lifetime fielding average is tops among third basemen in major league history.
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN: 9780791011867
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A biography of the Oriole third baseman whose lifetime fielding average is tops among third basemen in major league history.
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
Author: Sharon Robinson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338153706
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A warm, intimate portrait of Jackie Robinson, America's sports icon, told from the unique perspective of a unique insider: his only daughter. Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete, a devoted family man and a dedicated civil rights activist. The author explores the fascinating circumstances surrounding Jackie Robinson's breakthrough. She also tells the off-the-field story of Robinson's hard-won victories and the inspiring effect he had on his family, his community. . . his country! Includes never-before-published letters by Jackie Robinson, as well as photos from the Robinson family archives.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338153706
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A warm, intimate portrait of Jackie Robinson, America's sports icon, told from the unique perspective of a unique insider: his only daughter. Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete, a devoted family man and a dedicated civil rights activist. The author explores the fascinating circumstances surrounding Jackie Robinson's breakthrough. She also tells the off-the-field story of Robinson's hard-won victories and the inspiring effect he had on his family, his community. . . his country! Includes never-before-published letters by Jackie Robinson, as well as photos from the Robinson family archives.
Alligator Alley
Author: Rick Robinson
Publisher: Publisher Page
ISBN: 9780938467656
Category : Everglades Parkway (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alligator Alley is the story of James Conrad, who is spending his 50th birthday alone in South Florida. He decides to take a drive along the famed Alligator Alley into the depths of the Everglades, ostensibly in search of memories of his great uncle, who left his family to live on a Seminole Indian reservation. In the course of that exploration, Conrad discovers his small town definition of success may be a ruse.
Publisher: Publisher Page
ISBN: 9780938467656
Category : Everglades Parkway (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alligator Alley is the story of James Conrad, who is spending his 50th birthday alone in South Florida. He decides to take a drive along the famed Alligator Alley into the depths of the Everglades, ostensibly in search of memories of his great uncle, who left his family to live on a Seminole Indian reservation. In the course of that exploration, Conrad discovers his small town definition of success may be a ruse.
Autism Solutions
Author: Ricki G. Robinson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472008685
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Hope - and Help - for Your Child
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472008685
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Hope - and Help - for Your Child
Branch Rickey's Little Blue Book
Author: Branch Rickey
Publisher: SportClassic Books
ISBN: 9781894963282
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Branch Rickey's own words from his personal papers are skillfully compiled to form a book of witticisms and observations that abounds with common sense and insight, stands today a work of inspiration.
Publisher: SportClassic Books
ISBN: 9781894963282
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Branch Rickey's own words from his personal papers are skillfully compiled to form a book of witticisms and observations that abounds with common sense and insight, stands today a work of inspiration.