A View from the Mound; My Father's Life in Baseball
A View from the Mound; My Father's Life in Baseball

Author: T. J. Lewis

Publisher: Tim Lewis

Published: 2009-04-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1435714865

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The tale of a man who made a lifetime contribution to the all American game. How he touched the lives of thousands of young men and friends in their words and memories from high school baseball through the major leagues.The Biography of my dad, Joe "Skippy" Lewis. Interviews with Johnny Pesky, Alan Trammell, Mark "The Bird" Fidrych and More!!!!

The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych
The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych

Author: Doug Wilson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1250004926

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Lanky, mop-topped, and nicknamed for his resemblance to Big Bird on Sesame Street, Fidrych exploded onto the national stage during the Bicentennial summer as a rookie with the Detroit Tigers. He won over fans nationwide with his wildly endearing antics, but quickly emerged as one of the best pitchers in the game. Fidrych was named starting pitcher in the All-Star Game as a rookie and became the first athlete to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Wilson recounts Fidrych's meteoric rise, his heartbreaking fall after a torn knee ligament and then rotator cuff, and captures Fidrych's post-baseball life to his death in a freak accident in 2009.

Hardscrabble Diamonds
Hardscrabble Diamonds

Author: Colin Howell

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1476648735

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Part history, part memoir, part statistical analysis, this book tells the remarkable and largely forgotten story of how the baseball hotbed of Canada's northeastern Maritime provinces evolved into "NCAA North" during the 1940s and 1950s. A summer training ground for players from leading U.S. college programs, the region attracted talented players seeking higher salaries than they could get in the American minor league system. Major league organizations came to scout blue-chip prospects. In this competitive environment, only the best were able to crack the rosters of town teams in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine. A Quality of Competition Index for various northeast leagues provides major league equivalencies for selected players.

Boy @ the Window
Boy @ the Window

Author: Donald Earl Collins

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780989256131

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As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.

Cleburne Baseball: A Railroader History
Cleburne Baseball: A Railroader History

Author: Scott Cain

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1467137014

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Shortly after Cleburne landed the largest railroad shops west of the Mississippi, it set its sights on securing a professional baseball team. Against the odds, Cleburne became a Texas League town in 1906. After the first championship, the Railroaders loaded a train and left Cleburne. The town's professional teams would amass two championships, three pennants and several legendary major league players, including Tris Speaker, before disappearing. Despite lacking a professional club, the town continued to field teams at all levels, until the Railroaders made their triumphant return in 2017. Scott Cain shares a century of Cleburne baseball, including the cowboys who gunned down fly balls to intimidate umps, the pro team that played the Chicago White Sox and the city councilman who was a scorekeeper for the Negro Leagues in the 1950s.

Letters and Life
Letters and Life

Author: Bret Lott

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2013-06-30

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1433537869

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Writing lays bare the soul. All serious writers know that each word reveals something significant about themselves, granting outsiders a glimpse at their most cherished beliefs and foundational convictions. In this series of intimate reflections on life and writing, critically acclaimed and best-selling novelist Bret Lott explores the author's craft through five letters covering a range of fascinating topics, from exploring the value of literary fiction to discussing the humility of Flannery O'Connor. In the final and longest letter, Lott contemplates the death of his father and his struggle to convey his complicated thoughts and inexplicable emotions in words. Intensely personal and yet universally relatable, this powerful collection of essays will encourage and enrich writers and aspiring writers everywhere.

Small-Town Heroes
Small-Town Heroes

Author: Hank Davis

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780803266391

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In 1993 successful psychologist and journalist Hank Davis undertook an epic journey exploring the atmosphere and culture of both minor league baseball and the small towns that embrace it. Davis shows us the warmth, quirkiness, and desperate energy of minor league ball, from encounters with future stars to those who would never make it to the ?show?; from the kids selling Cracker Jacks outside the park to the aging coaches who persevere out of sheer love for the game. As Davis says, ?the minor leagues are full of stories,? and he tells some of the best of them here. A new afterword by the author dis-cusses where the minor league players are now.

The Jewel of My Life
The Jewel of My Life

Author: Edward A. Nieto

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-01-26

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 1669859614

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Diana Nieto is a person of highest reputation as mother, educator and business woman. She had a degree in Biology and has a reputable record of accomplishments in the education field and self promoted business woman for more than 35 years. She married a Petroleum Engineer and had three wonderful sons and four beautiful grand-daughters. They enjoyed together a life plenty of excitement, adventure around the world and great interaction with outstanding people of different background and nationalities. She always has a positive and happy attitude, enjoyed life at the fullest, has fun while working or travelling, dedicated her life to her three sons, loved her four grandkids, surrounded by good and outstanding friends including her husband and always maintained a radian beautiful disposition toward everyone around her. In 2020, Diana's husband wrote her memories "The Jewel of my Life- Her Memoirs". The memoirs consist of stories of her post college time in Colombia, but focused primarily on her life in the USA and abroad. The writer main concern is to honor her legacy with love, care and appreciation. Diana's life has been an inspiration or exulting. It is a celebration to the author and to the graceful people surrounding her. For the writer it could not do it without being inspire and once he was inspired there was almost nothing he couldn't do.

Bargaining with Baseball
Bargaining with Baseball

Author: William B. Gould IV

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0786486880

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In 1995, William B. Gould IV, then chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cast the deciding vote to obtain the injunction that ended the longest strike in baseball history. Sixteen years of peaceful relations between baseball labor and management have followed, as well as unprecedented prosperity in a relationship that had just endured 30 years of strikes and lockouts. This study, which clearly illustrates the practical impact of law on America's pastime, considers the 140-year sweep of labor-management relationships and conflict, exploring player-owner disputes, the development of free agency, the collective bargaining process, and the racial integration of baseball, among other topics. It concludes with a discussion of the "steroids era," the problem with maintaining Jackie Robinson's legacy in the 21st century, and globalization.