The Best Ever Guide to Getting Out of Debt for Braves' Fans
The Best Ever Guide to Getting Out of Debt for Braves' Fans

Author: Mark Geoffrey Young

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-10-09

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781492381471

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The Best Ever Guide to Getting Out of Debt for Braves' Fans: Hundreds of Ways to Ditch Your Debt, Manage Your Money and Fix Your Finances is a groundbreaking resource filled with hundreds of strategies that will totally transform your life. The Best Ever Guide to Getting Out of Debt for Braves' Fans is filled with so many tips that even if you only implement a few of the ideas suggested, you'll still be able to repay your debts years sooner than would be otherwise possible. You'll discover how to:• Reduce the amount of interest you pay on your credit cards • Get your credit card companies to cut your interest rates • Save money and eliminate wasteful spending without totally changing your lifestyle • Have friends and relatives help you achieve your goals without giving you money • Reduce your living expenses • Pay less for almost everything you buy. This book is different than the other books on the market because it doesn't just offer a single strategy. It offers multiple methodologies that have all been proven to work. Since you're not locked into a single strategy, you can implement the ideas that suit you. Ask yourself: Do you want to get out of debt and live the life you want, or do you want to continue struggling others use your money get richer?

The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports

Author: Kevin Cook

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-09-03

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0393089509

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The inside story of the most colorful decade in NFL history—pro football’s raging, hormonal, hairy, druggy, immortal adolescence. Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts, painkillers, legal steroids, fury, and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana’s gleamingly efficient 49ers ushered in a new era: the corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Kevin Cook’s rollicking chronicle of this pivotal decade draws on interviews with legendary players—Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken “Snake” Stabler—to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals as Monday Night Football redefined sports’ place in American life. Celebrating the game while lamenting the physical toll it took on football’s greatest generation, Cook diagrams the NFL’s transformation from second-tier sport into national obsession.

Reason
Reason

Author: Robert B. Reich

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2005-03-08

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1400076609

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For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor, this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason, one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that’s also a guide for rolling back twenty years of radical conservative domination of our politics and political culture. To do so, Robert B. Reich shows how liberals can: .Shift the focus of the values debate from behavior in the bedroom to malfeasance in the boardroom .Remind Americans that real prosperity depends on fairness .Reclaim patriotism from those who equate it with pre-emptive war-making and the suppression of dissent If a single book has the potential to restore our country’s good name and common sense, it’s this one.

Raceball
Raceball

Author: Rob Ruck

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2012-02-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0807048070

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From an award-winning writer, the first linked history of African Americans and Latinos in Major League Baseball After peaking at 27 percent of all major leaguers in 1975, African Americans now make up less than one-tenth--a decline unimaginable in other men's pro sports. The number of Latin Americans, by contrast, has exploded to over one-quarter of all major leaguers and roughly half of those playing in the minors. Award-winning historian Rob Ruck not only explains the catalyst for this sea change; he also breaks down the consequences that cut across society. Integration cost black and Caribbean societies control over their own sporting lives, changing the meaning of the sport, but not always for the better. While it channeled black and Latino athletes into major league baseball, integration did little for the communities they left behind. By looking at this history from the vantage point of black America and the Caribbean, a more complex story comes into focus, one largely missing from traditional narratives of baseball's history. Raceball unveils a fresh and stunning truth: baseball has never been stronger as a business, never weaker as a game.

The Yankees Index
The Yankees Index

Author: Mark Simon

Publisher: Triumph Books

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1633195252

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Yankees fans have witnessed improbable feats, extraordinary achievements, and unmatched performances during the team's 100-plus seasons. The Yankees Index details the numbers every Yankees fan—from the rookie attending his first game at Yankee Stadium to the veteran who recalls Ron Guidry's days on the mound—should know. Author Mark Simon tells the stories behind the most memorable moments and achievements in Yankees history in this full-color book full of insightful and fun infographics and history.

Tropic of Football
Tropic of Football

Author: Rob Ruck

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 9781620973370

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Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award "Everything that's rousing and distressing about block-and-tackle football is encompassed in Tropic of Football. . . illuminating." --Newsday How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players--from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota--for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots--high school and youth travel program--are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport. Jesse Sapolu, Junior Seau, Troy Polamalu, and Marcus Mariota are among the star players to emerge from the Samoan islands, and more of their brethren suit up every season. The very thing that makes them so good at football--their extraordinary internalization of discipline and warrior self-image--makes them especially vulnerable to its pitfalls, including concussions and brain injuries. Award-winning sports historian Rob Ruck travels to the South Seas to unravel American Samoa's complex ties with the United States. He finds an island blighted by obesity, where boys train on fields blistered with volcanic pebbles wearing helmets that should have been discarded long ago, incurring far more neurological damage than their stateside counterparts and haunted by Junior Seau, who committed suicide after a vaunted twenty-year NFL career, unable to live with the demons that resulted from chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Tropic of Football is a gripping, bittersweet history of what may be football's last frontier.

The Boston Braves, 1871-1953
The Boston Braves, 1871-1953

Author: Harold Kaese

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781555536176

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Hall of Fame sportswriter Harold Kaese chronicles the ups and downs of the storied baseball franchise's 82 seasons in Boston.

The Serpent King
The Serpent King

Author: Jeff Zentner

Publisher: Ember

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0553524046

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Named to ten BEST OF THE YEAR lists and selected as a William C. Morris Award Winner,The Serpent King is the critically acclaimed, much-beloved story of three teens who find themselves--and each other--while on the cusp of graduating from high school with hopes of leaving their small-town behind. Perfect for fans of John Green's Turtles All the Way Down. "Move over, John Green; Zentner is coming for you." —The New York Public Library “Will fill the infinite space that was left in your chest after you finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower.” —BookRiot.com Dill isn't the most popular kid at his rural Tennessee high school. After his father fell from grace in a public scandal that reverberated throughout their small town, Dill became a target. Fortunately, his two fellow misfits and best friends, Travis and Lydia, have his back. But as they begin their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening around him. His only escapes are music and his secret feelings for Lydia--neither of which he is brave enough to share. Graduation feels more like an ending to Dill than a beginning. But even before then, he must cope with another ending--one that will rock his life to the core. Debut novelist Jeff Zentner provides an unblinking and at times comic view of the hard realities of growing up in the Bible belt, and an intimate look at the struggles to find one’s true self in the wreckage of the past. “A story about friendship, family and forgiveness, it’s as funny and witty as it is utterly heartbreaking.” —PasteMagazine.com “A brutally honest portrayal of teen life . . . [and] a love letter to the South from a man who really understands it.” —Mashable.com “I adored all three of these characters and the way they talked to and loved one another.”—New York Times