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  Billy Ball - Billy Martin and...

  Dale Tafoya

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  In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in major-league baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But as the decade came to a close, the A's were in free fall, having lost 108 games in 1979 while drawing just 307,000 fans. Free agency had decimated the A's, and the team's owner, Charlie Finley, was looking for a buyer. First, though, he had to bring fans back to the Oakland Coliseum. Enter Billy Martin.Dale Tafoya describes what, at the time, seemed like a match made in baseball heaven. The A's needed a leader to reignite interest in the team. Martin needed a job after his second stint as manager of the New York Yankees came to an abrupt end. Based largely on interviews with former players, team executives, and journalists, Billy Ball captures Martin's homecoming to the Bay area, his immediate embrace by Oakland fans, and the A's return to playoff baseball. In Oakland, Martin's aggressive style of play came to be known as Billy Ball. A's fans and the media loved it.But, in life and in baseball, all good things must come to an end. Tafoya chronicles Martin's clash with the new A's management and the siren song of the Yankees that lured the manager back to New York in 1983. Still, as the book makes clear, the magical turnaround of the A's has never been forgotten in Oakland.

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  Weight Lifting: The...

  Julius Dilwen

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  Weight Lifting: The Comprehensive Guide to Weight Training, Learn How to Bulk Up and Increase Your Health Through Weight LiftingWhether you call it weightlifting, pumping iron, or bodybuilding - lifting weights both light and heavy has long been a great way to get in shape and stay in shape. Weightlifting or weight training has many health benefits for both men and women. There are weightlifting and weight-training routines appropriate for men, women, even children of any age, any size, and any body type. If you want to build muscle mass, increase stamina, improve cardiac function, even stave off the symptoms of osteoporosis - you can accomplish all of that and so much more by adding a good weight training routine to your regular workout.This audiobook will teach you all about weight lifting. You will learn all the information you need like the reason why you need to lift weights and all the preparation you need to do beforehand. You will also learn different weight lifting and training techniques that you can try to improve your physical fitness and overall health. This audiobook will discuss the following topics:- Why Should I Lift Weights?- How does Weightlifting Increase Muscle Size?- Basic Weightlifting Equipment- Weightlifting and Weight Loss- Weightlifting Techniques – The Proper Squat- Weightlifting Techniques – The Proper Deadlift- Weightlifting and General Fitness- Weightlifting and Body Mass Index- Weightlifting and Strength Training- Weightlifting for Overall Health- Weight Lifting for Kids- And many more!Lifting weights improves your strength and stamina. It also builds your muscles and confidence, improves cardiovascular health and can actually help prevent other sports injuries. If you want to learn more about weight lifting, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Writing Landscape

  Linda Cracknell

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  Inhabiting a landscape, walking a landscape, writing a place and time. 
  Linda Cracknell is a writer of place and nature who believes in being alert, observing, and writing from the particulars of each experience. Engaging bodily with her writing, she is someone for whom getting mud on her boots, sleeping high up in the hills, or being slapped by salt water can all be part of her process. She follows Susan Sontag's advice to “Love words, agonize over sentences and pay attention to the world.”  
  In this varied collection of essays, Linda backpacks on a small island that is connected to the mainland at low tide, musing on the nineteenth-century Scottish writer whose character was shipwrecked there. She hikes the wooded mountain trail close to her home in winter snow—a place she is intimately familiar with in all weathers and seasons—and she retraces the steps of a multiday hike made almost seven decades after her parents trod the route together. She explores her inspirations, in nature and from other artists and their work.  
  Reading this collection will open your eyes to the world around you and how you can observe, take note, and later commit those notes and memories to written pieces that will evoke the place and time.

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  The Goaltenders’ Union -...

  Greg Oliver, Richard Kamchen

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  In hockey, goalies have always been a contradiction — solitary men in a team game, the last line of defence and the stalwarts expected to save the day after any and every miscue and collapse from his teammates. It’s no wonder that anyone who played the position has had his sanity questioned; yet some of the biggest innovations in the game have come from its puckstoppers. In The Goaltenders’ Union, Greg Oliver and Richard Kamchen talk to more than 60 keepers of yesterday and today, finding common threads to their stories, and in dozens of interviews about them with other coaches and players. From Gilles “Gratoony the Loony” Gratton, who refused to play because the moon was out of alignment with Jupiter, to Jonathan Quick, the athletically gifted master keeper of today’s game, the book is an entertaining and enlightening peek behind the mask.

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  Climbing Down - Long distance...

  Graham Wilson

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  Graham Wilson's Climbing Down, selected as a Travel Book of the Week in The Guardian, features long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills — but in manageable chunks. Wilson makes an entertaining companion; once he was fit enough for the Bob Graham Round, now he's the victim of a crumbling hip. So, he breaks the walks into sections and, instead of calling on a shuttle-service of friends with cars, takes to public transport. The walks include an Alternative Snowdon Horseshoe, a Scottish Coast to Coast and the Yorkshire Centurion, as well as several Peak District rounds. And a new, gentler activity is proposed for the compulsive list-ticker: island-bagging. Wilson's experiences are recounted in his own inimitable style, with the usual eccentric digressions into topi such as coffin roads and cut-hopping, Munros and mobile phones, solo climbing and slippered pigs. Wonderfully illustrated with drawings by Gerry Dale.

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  Survival Training - Killer Tips...

  Wesley Jones

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  Become the ultimate survivor!  
  We’ve all seen the TV shows, and we all know it could come down to this: Survival in the wild. When you’re on your own, away from civilization, you must know what to do, or you will die. Understanding our physical bodies, what they need, and what nature provides, lies at the basis of getting through a desert, jungle, or mountain climate or landscape. Well, we’ll help you get there, by telling you about:Keeping your feet healthy, which is one of the most important things to move along.Survival apps you can download on your phone (assuming you’ll have your phone).Ways to purify water, so you can stay hydrated.Using a compass and map to find your way through the wilderness.Scavenging methods to find food and water.Avoid scams and tourist traps backpackers sometimes come across in different countries.Taking the weather, natural disasters, and other situations into account. Things you need to remember when hiking and having more energy.And much more!  
  Forget the boy scouts or girl scouts. The information in this audiobook can elevate your way of thinking in a life-or-death situation, and when everyone else around you is perplexed, you’ll know what to do. Become the hero you’re meant to be.

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