Author: Kelli Chipponeri Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0689864299 Category : Baseball stories Languages : en Pages : 36
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Cindy Vortex wants to prove that girls can play baseball just as well as boys, if not better. She challenges Jimmy to a game, but while the girls wait at the field, the boys are in the lab waiting for Jimmy to finish his latest invention. Full color.
Author: Jim Botticelli Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493078887 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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When Jim Botticelli launched the Dirty Old Boston Facebook page as a salute to the gritty city he once knew, he discovered that thousands of people were equally nostalgic and curious about Boston's recent past. And for good reason; after World War II, Boston changed rapidly, without apology, for better and worse, and in many ways forever.Dirty Old Boston chronicles the people, streets, and buildings from the postwar years to 1987. From ball games to dive bars, Dirty Old Boston also covers some of the city's most tumultuous events including the razing of neighborhoods, Boston's busing crisis, and the continual fight for affordable housing.Photographs—assembled from family albums, student projects, institutional archives, and professional collections—reveal Boston as seen from the streets. Illuminating Boston's tenacity and spirit, Dirty Old Boston presents our proud moments and our growing pains. Raw and beautiful, this book is an evocative tribute to the city and its people.
Author: William Dean Crawford Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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"Strike three and you're out!" the umpire yelled, as young Jimmy Watson made the walk of shame back to the bench in front of his friends and his crush - a moment forever etched in his memory." After his mother's death, handsome and successful Jimmy Watson returns to the small town where he grew up to settle her estate. Memories flood back in of a time long ago - failures, friends, love, regret for what could have been. His college sweetheart, Alice Wallace, a local real estate agent is his rock during this hard time. Grieving and vulnerable, he can't stumble into a relationship, yet he finds such comfort in her wisdom and presence. Jimmy knows Mother was right. "Jimmy, you've devoted so much time to your work that it has left little time for friends, family or love." But Alice has a son...is he ready to step into a father role? With a life full of earthly treasures, money and success, how could he give it all up for small-town living? And why did his mother leave thousands of dollars to Alice's son?
Author: Dan Epstein Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 125003437X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 420
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Dan Epstein scored a cult hit with Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s. Now he returns with Stars and Strikes, a riotous look at the most pivotal season of the decade. America, 1976: colorful, complex, and combustible. It was a year of Bicentennial celebrations and presidential primaries, of Olympic glory and busing riots, of "killer bees" hysteria and Pong fever. For both the nation and the national pastime, the year was revolutionary, indeed. On the diamond, Thurman Munson led the New York Yankees to their first World Series in a dozen years, but it was Joe Morgan and Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" who cemented a dynasty with their second consecutive World Championship. Sluggers Mike Schmidt and Dave Kingman dominated the headlines, while rookie sensation Mark "The Bird" Fidrych started the All-Star Game opposite Randy "Junkman" Jones. The season was defined by the outrageous antics of team owners Bill Veeck, Ted Turner, George Steinbrenner, and Charlie Finley, as well as by several memorable bench-clearing brawls, and a batting title race that became just as contentious as the presidential race. From Dorothy Hamill's "wedge" haircut to Kojak's chrome dome, American pop culture was never more giddily effervescent than in this year of Jimmy Carter, CB radios, AMC Pacers, The Bad News Bears, Rocky, Taxi Driver, the Ramones, KISS, Happy Days, Hotel California, and Frampton Comes Alive!--it all came alive in '76! Meanwhile, as the nation erupted in a red-white-and-blue explosion saluting its two- hundredth year of independence, Major League Baseball players waged a war for their own liberties by demanding free agency. From the road to the White House to the shorts-wearing White Sox, Stars and Strikes tracks the tumultuous year after which the sport--and the nation--would never be the same.
Author: Jimmy Breslin Publisher: Crown ISBN: 0307559637 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 226
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The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé chronicles the life and tragic death of an undocumented worker, along with broader issues of municipal corruption and America’s deadly and controversial border policy.
Author: Jim Kaat Publisher: Triumph Books ISBN: 1623681618 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 207
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He pitched to Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn. His career spanned three commissioners, four decades and five times in six cities. Before he becomes elected to the baseball Hall of Fame, learn about the fascinating career of one of the most unheralded hurlers.
Author: James Patterson Publisher: jimmy patterson ISBN: 0316430315 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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Rafe feels like a caged lion at his summer job at the zoo--until a real lion desperately needs his help. Rafe Khatchadorian is days away from sweet, sweet summer freedom until bad grades threaten to land him in . . . SUMMER SCHOOL. It’s impossible to fail out of a summer job, right? Wrong. He strikes out at the zoo then grosses out at a billionaire's country club: Digging a pit for the annual clambake Scrubbing chewed bubblegum, sooty fireplaces, and . . . toilets Polishing the chrome on his boss's ATV Rafe is destined for the Failed Jobs Hall of Fame until an encounter with an endangered lion puts his wildlife knowledge to the test . . . and it's more than his grade on the line this time.
Author: Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780525466710 Category : Domestic animals Languages : en Pages : 0
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Jimmy is doing his farm chores with a little more flair, much to his parents' dismay. But when the Dabble farm is threatened, it is Jimmy and his farmyard friends who find a way to save the day.
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