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  Baseball - Hitting Pitching and...

  Zane Ryder

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  Baseball is a game of precision, strategy, and athleticism, and understanding its fundamental principles is essential for success at any level of play. Whether you’re a seasoned player or just starting out, mastering the basics forms the foundation for all other skills in the game. This chapter will introduce you to the core aspects of baseball, focusing on the essential elements of hitting, pitching, and fielding that every player must know. 
  The history of baseball is steeped in tradition, yet the fundamentals have remained largely unchanged. The game’s structure revolves around three primary skills: hitting, pitching, and fielding, and excelling in each of these areas requires dedication, practice, and an understanding of the fundamentals. These skills work together to form the rhythm of the game, creating both offensive and defensive strategies that are key to a team’s success. 
  In hitting, the ability to consistently make contact with the ball and drive it to the right areas of the field is a cornerstone of baseball. The stance, grip, and swing mechanics are essential for generating power, precision, and timing. Understanding how to read a pitcher’s delivery and anticipating pitches are also fundamental skills that elevate a hitter's effectiveness.

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  The Recovery Edge - Go Beyond...

  Dr. Adrian Cole

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  Stuck on a plateau, battling aches, or flirting with burnout? 
  The Recovery Edge is the missing manual that shows why adaptation, strength, and speed aren’t built during the workout — but between them. Sports-scientist Dr Adrian Cole dismantles “no-pain-no-gain” culture and hands you the Recovery-Centered Training Method (RCTM): a step-by-step system to turn rest into your most powerful performance tool. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2} 
  You’ll learn how to … 
   ✔️ Harness the science of adaptation (GAS, hormones, CNS fatigue) to drive gains instead of breakdowns 
   ✔️ Decode your body’s signals — HRV, soreness, sleep data — and auto-regulate training for day-to-day readiness 
   ✔️ Build evidence-based recovery blocks: sleep architecture, anti-inflammatory nutrition, hydration tactics, breath-work & mobility 
   ✔️ Deploy active-recovery tools (cold, heat, foam rolling, sauna) without blunting growth 
   ✔️ Design intelligent periodization that marries volume, intensity, and deload weeks for lifelong progress 
   ✔️ Plug in the 30-Day Recovery Audit to smash plateaus, crush races, and train pain-free for years 
  Imagine stepping into every session fresh, powerful, and injury-resilient — knowing you’ll still be thriving decades from now. 
  Perfect for: 
   • Endurance athletes and lifters stuck in vicious overtraining cycles 
   • Coaches & trainers ready to give clients sustainable success 
   • High-achievers who want peak performance without sacrificing health 
   Stop paying the hidden cost of “more is better.” Scroll up and click Buy Now to gain The Recovery Edge today.

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  Levels of the Game

  John McPhee

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  This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description  
  while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.

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  Out for Air

  Olly Todd

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  Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where 'the bridges are endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality'. Expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering. Todd rewires T. S. Eliot's Waste Land in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the spirit of the place.
  From Manhattan's 'silky streets' and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things.
  'I'm dazzled by this wonderful debut...The language itself crunches, glides, grinds. A radically different way of experiencing the built and natural environment and an endlessly engaging, witty, serious and astute new voice.' - Luke Kennard
  'Out for Air is an inventive and alluring debut...With shades of Kleinzahler and Eliot, these poems explore angles and movement, friendship and distance, in a voice that is genuinely original, graceful and often strange.' - Martha Sprackland
  'Through his words a whole world and potential opens up, a distillation of experience that feels universal and intimate.' - Nick Jensen
  'Out for Air creates a world of familiarity gone strange, a world of signs of the human in motion, where the living in place becomes its constant study. It makes a hard-to-pin-down language which is all its own, and which mirrors its subjects' international scope, its playful, sometimes arch, worldview, and which announces a wholly original voice.' - Will Burns

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  Massive - The Miracle of Prague

  Pete May

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  Charting West Ham's tumultuous 2022–23 season and epic triumph in the Europa Conference League final, this is the story of how the Hammers defied the odds to win their first trophy in forty-three years and first European trophy in fifty-eight years. After weathering misfiring signings, dissent among the fans and the near-sacking of David Moyes, the Irons eventually secured Premier League survival and found spectacular redemption in the Europa Conference League. They played fifteen games in Europe and were unbeaten. Captain Declan Rice ended his West Ham career by lifting a trophy, just like Bobby Moore and Billy Bonds before him. The outpouring of joy at the final whistle in Prague will never be forgotten by the club's fans, many of whom were too young to have seen their team win its last trophy. Packed with hilarious anecdotes and whimsical musings, this is West Ham's extraordinary 2022–23 season as told by superfan Pete May, who lived (and occasionally suffered) through every nail-biting moment and crucial game. Experience the goals, games and glory all over again in this witty and impassioned book – essential reading for any Hammers fan.

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  Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? -...

  Paul Simpson, Uli Hesse

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  Published in time for the 2014 World Cup, the ultimate collection of soccer’s greatest lore and legends, illustrated with 100 black-and-white photos, by two of the world’s most knowledgeable soccer journalists.Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a rollicking ride through soccer history that will surprise and delight fans old and new. Veteran soccer journalists Uli Hesse and editor Paul Simpson bring together the sublime feats, legendary personalities, neglected heroes, bizarre twists of fate, and fascinating mysteries that have shaped the world’s most popular game, including:Who invented the bicycle kick?Why does a football match last 90 minutes?Who scored the fastest goal ever?Which match produced the largest number of red cards?Why are seven dead cats buried under a stadium in Argentina?Which country was banned from the World Cup after refusing to play in shoes?Providing answers to more than 100 questions, Hesse and Simpson explore the beautiful game as never before, shedding new light on legends such as Pele, Maradona, Messi, Beckham, Ronaldo, and Rooney, and uncovering lost histories of international clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and more. Challenging conventional wisdom, and destroying a few urban myths, Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a must for every soccer lover.

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