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  Baseball History - The History...

  Ace McCloud

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  Would you love to explore the incredible and exciting history of baseball?Whether you want to (1) learn amazing and interesting facts about baseball history, (2) discover some of baseball’s greatest events and stories, or (3) be thoroughly entertained as you learn how baseball has evolved over the years, this audio book will give you everything you need to know.Get an inside look at the game.This audio book is about what makes baseball the sport it is today. We’ll take you inside a game to see what individual players are thinking. Learn some of the early influences that have made the game what it is today.Discover the greatest innovations to baseball.Baseball relies equally upon chance and skill. Find out what players have used over the years to improve their odds for success. Follow the struggle for advantage between pitchers and batters, offense and defense.The Rich Culture of BaseballBaseball is a sport rich in history, culture, and traditions. Gain both inspiration and a treasure of knowledge that add depth to the game. Learn some of the strategies that have made baseball so unpredictably fascinating.Trace the Development of the Sport.Meet some of the interesting people who have contributed to the game. Learn from the ongoing legacy of practical innovation that has shaped baseball over its one hundred-plus years of history. Whatever your interest or level of knowledge, “The History of Baseball” will entertain, educate, and inspire you.Discover the incredibly entertaining history of baseball.Get inside the game: Buy It Now!

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  What Do You Think of Ted...

  Richard Ben Cramer

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  Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed biographer of Joe DiMaggio decodes baseball icon Ted Williams and finds not just a great player, but also a great man.When legendary Red Sox hitter Ted Williams died on July 5, 2002, newspapers reviewed the stats, compared him to other legends of the game, and declared him the greatest hitter who ever lived.In 1986, Richard Ben Cramer spent months on a profile of Ted Williams, and the result was the Esquire article that has been acclaimed ever since as one of the finest pieces of sports reporting ever written.Given special acknowledgment in The Best American Sportswriting of the Century and adapted for a coffee-table book called Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid, the original piece is now available in this special edition, with new material about Williams's later years.While his decades after Fenway Park were out of the spotlight -- the way Ted preferred it -- they were arguably his richest, as he loved and inspired his family, his fans, the players, and the game itself. This is a remembrance for the ages.

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  Son of Havana - A Baseball...

  Luis Tiant, Saul Wisnia

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  A memoir by the mustachioed baseball pitcher who went playing rocky, trash-ridden fields in Castro’s Cuba to becoming a Boston Red Sox legend. Luis Tiant is one of the most charismatic and accomplished players in Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball history. With a barrel-chested physique and a Fu Manchu mustache, Tiant may not have looked like the lean, sculpted aces he usually played against, but nobody was a tougher competitor on the diamond, and few were as successful. There may be no more qualified twentieth-century pitcher not yet enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. His big-league dreams came at a price: racism in the Deep South and the Boston suburbs, and nearly fifteen years separated from a family held captive in Castro’s Cuba. But baseball also delivered World Series stardom and a heroic return to his island home after close to a half-century of forced exile. The man whose name—“El Tiante” —became a Fenway Park battle cry has never fully shared his tale in his own words, until now. In Son of Havana, Tiant puts his heart on his sleeve and describes his road from torn-up fields in Havana to the pristine lawns of major league ballparks. Readers will share Tiant’s pride when appeals by a pair of US senators to baseball-fanatic Castro secure freedom for Luis’s parents to fly to Boston and witness the 1975 World Series glory of their child. And readers will join the big-league ballplayers for their spring 2016 exhibition game in Havana, when Tiant—a living link to the earliest, scariest days of the Castro regime—threw out the first pitch.

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  PICKLEBALL FOR BEGINNERS - From...

  Ethan Johnson

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  The ease with which one can participate in pickleball is one of the factors that contribute to the sport's widespread popularity. Pickleball is a sport that can be played with only a few fundamental items of equipment, in contrast to other sports that require a significant amount of specialized gear and extensive training. A pickleball paddle, a ball, and a court are all that are required to play the sport of pickleball. Because of this, it is a cheap and accessible activity that can be enjoyed by everyone, regardless of their previous experience or their degree of athletic ability, and it does not require a high level of physical talent. 
  Pickleball is a wonderful social sport, which is another one of its many appealing qualities. Pickleball is played by a large number of people not just for the thrill of competition but also for the camaraderie it fosters. Pickleball is an excellent activity for socializing, friendship-building, and maintaining connections with others in your community. You are guaranteed to have a good time and make new connections through the activity of playing this fantastic sport, whether you do it with a group of friends or decide to sign up for a local pickleball club. 

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  Little Book of Arsenal

  Michael Heatley

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  A unique and fascinating A to Z of the Premiership club managed by Arsene Wenger who consistantly challenge for the Premiership and major trophies. This book is a must for any Arsenal fan, with features on all the key players, managers and events that have shaped the club to date. We cover legends such as Pat Jennings, Ian Wright, Tony Adams and Thierry Henry.

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  We Ate All the Pies - How...

  John Nicholson

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  In Who Ate All the Pies?, the gonzo sports journalist explores and celebrates the things we love about the whole culture of the game, tries to explain how we got to where we are now and speculates where we the game is headed. Amongst other things, he explores the history of the football shirt in style and design; how and why sponsorship became the norm; the culture of food inside the ground, around the stadium and in the pubs and clubs, and how the culture of pies and the modern trend of fine dining changed the match day experience (and why prawn sandwiches are the perfect expression of the class-politics of football); why booze is so important to football; how football is used by people to vent their everyday frustrations and emotions and how this is managed by the clubs. He also describes the history of football on TV and how it changed perceptions of teams and countries (in particular, the 1970 World Cup TV revolution); the role of international football in national identity and the intricate complexities of being a Teessider, Northern and English, in that order!

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