Author: David Haywood Young Publisher: Cabin Fever Press Release Date: 2012-11-19 Book Size: 19.33 MB Book Format: PDF, Mobi Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : View: 1385
by David Haywood Young, Thursday Night Game Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thursday Night Game book, Jack, meet Bea. Your game just changed. Forever. In this short story somewhere between contemporary fantasy and horror, Jack Radney is a poker player with a history. And a fetish for keeping a rigid schedule. Until one night he meets Beatrice, who has a highly unusual gift. But her ability doesn't work on Jack. Turns out he's a little bit...odd...himself. And in more than one way. They leave the game together. Which just might be the worst idea either of them ever had. Note: this story is included in the author's What Happens in September... collection. He also has three novels available. The Secret, a post-apocalyptic supernatural thriller, was published in September 2015.
Author: Peter O. Steiner Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: 2005-11-29 Book Size: 73.91 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub, Docs Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 480 View: 3925
by Peter O. Steiner, Thursday Night Poker Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thursday Night Poker book, Intended for the serious biweekly or monthly player, this gaming guide devotes chapters to calculating probabilities, estimating odds, bluffing and being bluffed, reading your opponents' down cards, and more. Virtually everyone will learn from this clearly written, fully illustrated instructional book. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications Publisher: Release Date: 1979 Book Size: 70.65 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi Category : Television broadcasting of sports Languages : en Pages : 81 View: 579
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Communications, Sports Anti Blackout Legislation Oversight Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Sports Anti Blackout Legislation Oversight book,
Author: Michael Hurd Publisher: University of Texas Press Release Date: 2017-10-11 Book Size: 10.97 MB Book Format: PDF, Docs Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 260 View: 221
by Michael Hurd, Thursday Night Lights Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thursday Night Lights book, At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded black schools from membership until 1967) created an exciting brand of football that produced hundreds of outstanding players, many of whom became college All-Americans, All-Pros, and Pro Football Hall of Famers, including NFL greats such as "Mean" Joe Green (Temple Dunbar), Otis Taylor (Houston Worthing), Dick "Night Train" Lane (Austin Anderson), Ken Houston (Lufkin Dunbar), and Bubba Smith (Beaumont Charlton-Pollard). Thursday Night Lights tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas. Drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia, Michael Hurd introduces the players, coaches, schools, and towns where African Americans built powerhouse football programs under the PVIL leadership. He covers fifty years (1920–1970) of high school football history, including championship seasons and legendary rivalries such as the annual Turkey Day Classic game between Houston schools Jack Yates and Phillis Wheatley, which drew standing-room-only crowds of up to 40,000, making it the largest prep sports event in postwar America. In telling this story, Hurd explains why the PVIL was necessary, traces its development, and shows how football offered a potent source of pride and ambition in the black community, helping black kids succeed both athletically and educationally in a racist society.
Author: Peter Otto Steiner Publisher: Random House Incorporated Release Date: 1996 Book Size: 14.94 MB Book Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 426 View: 3722
by Peter Otto Steiner, Thursday Night Poker Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Thursday Night Poker book, Intended for the serious biweekly or monthly player, this gaming guide devotes chapters to calculating probabilities, estimating odds, bluffing and being bluffed, reading your opponents' down cards, and more. Virtually everyone will learn from this clearly written, fully illustrated instructional book.
Author: Donald R. Wells Publisher: McFarland Release Date: 2010-07-27 Book Size: 43.27 MB Book Format: PDF, Kindle Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 235 View: 1329
by Donald R. Wells, Baseball S Western Front Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Baseball S Western Front book, The Pacific Coast League had emerged from the Depression of the 1930s in fairly good condition. There were four new ball parks: Seals Stadium in San Francisco in 1931, Lane Field in San Diego in 1936, Sick's Stadium in Seattle in 1938 and Gilmore Field in Hollywood in 1939. But after the attack on Pearl Harbor, there was some doubt that baseball would be allowed to operate during the war. This work focuses on the 1942 to 1945 seasons offering final standings and details associated with the ballparks as well as the players. The appendix includes records of individual players listed by club and by year. The clubs are listed in order of finish.
by Tom Shales, Those Guys Have All The Fun Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Those Guys Have All The Fun book, In the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact with their favorite teams. It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites States and around the world. But the inside story of its rise has never been fully told-until now. Drawing upon over 500 interviews with the greatest names in ESPN's history and an All-Star collection of some of the world's finest athletes, bestselling authors James Miller and Tom Shales take us behind the cameras. Now, in their own words, the men and women who made ESPN great reveal the secrets behind its success-as well as the many scandals, rivalries, off-screen battles and triumphs that have accompanied that ascent. From the unknown producers and business visionaries to the most famous faces on television, it's all here.
by Dana Brand, The Last Days Of Shea Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Last Days Of Shea book, Written in a personal, moving, and humorous style, The Last Days of Shea chronicles the New York Mets from October 2006, when the team lost the National League Championship Series, to October 2008, when the team began to dismantle its antiquated, inadequate, and dearly loved Shea Stadium. The book is about following a baseball team with one's heart, mind, and soul. It represents the experience of being in a crowd at a ballpark, following a pennant race, enduring an off season, experiencing streaks, slumps, triumph and heartbreak. All of this is represented against the imminent destruction of a stadium "that is not likely to be represented as well in the perfect and profitable little park that will replace it."
Author: Mike Lupica Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 2014-09-16 Book Size: 35.11 MB Book Format: PDF Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304 View: 5380
by Mike Lupica, Fantasy League Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Fantasy League book, From the #1 bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw comes a story of every football kid’s dream come true. 12-year-old Charlie is a fantasy football guru. He may be just a bench warmer for his school's football team, but when it comes to knowing and loving the game, he's first-string. He even becomes a celebrity when his podcast gets noticed by a sports radio host, who plays Charlie's fantasy picks for all of Los Angeles to hear. Soon Charlie befriends the elderly owner of the L.A. Bulldogs -- a fictional NFL team -- and convinces him to take a chance on an aging quarterback. After that, watch out . . . it's press conferences and national fame as Charlie becomes a media curiosity and source of conflict for the Bulldogs general manager, whose job Charlie seems to have taken. It's all a bit much for a kid just trying to stay on top of his grades and maintain his friendship with his verbal sparring partner, Anna. Like the best Disney film in book form, like Moneyball for kids, Fantasy League is every football kid's dream scenario. Praise for FANTASY LEAGUE: * "This Moneyball story with kids is on the money."–Booklist, starred review "The feel good book of the year."–VOYA “Readers will be alternately cheering and reaching for a tissue during the final playoff-deciding game for the Bulldogs. This will be devoured by young football fans.”–School Library Journal
Author: John Rosengren Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. Release Date: 2008-04-01 Book Size: 50.78 MB Book Format: PDF Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 352 View: 5815
by John Rosengren, Hammerin Hank George Almighty And The Say Hey Kid Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Hammerin Hank George Almighty And The Say Hey Kid book, "The vivid story of a young Reggie Jackson on Charlie Finley's A's and the veteran Willie Mays on Yogi's Mets, both destined for the '73 series." -Library Journal This was the year that the national pastime underwent an extreme makeover. In 1973, baseball was in crisis. The first strike in pro sports had soured fans, American League attendance had fallen, and America's team-the Yankees-had lost more games and money than ever. Yet that season, five of the game's greatest figures rescued the national pastime. Hank Aaron riveted the nation with his pursuit of Babe Ruth's landmark home run record in the face of racist threats. George Steinbrenner purchased the Yankees at a bargain basement price and began buying back their faded glory. The American League broke ranks with the National League and introduced the designated hitter, extending the careers of aging stars such as Orlando Cepeda. An elderly and ailing Willie Mays-the icon of an earlier generation-nearly helped the Mets pull off a miracle with the final hit of his career. Reggie Jackson, the MVP of a tense World Series, became the prototype of the modern superstar. The season itself provided plenty of drama served up by a colorful cast of characters. The Mets, managed by Yogi Berra, performed another near miracle, rising from last place in the National League East to win the division and take the A's to seven games in the World Series. Pete Rose edged Willie Stargell as the National League's MVP in a controversial vote. Hank Aaron chased Babe Ruth's landmark 714 record in the face of racial threats. Reggie Jackson, the World Series MVP, solidified his reputation as Mr. October. Willie Mays, arguably the best player of the '50s and '60s, hit the final home run of his career and retired, no longer able to keep pace with the younger players of the next generation. Future Hall of Famers Dave Winfield and George Brett played in their first major league games; Luis Aparicio and Mays played in their last. That one memorable summer changed baseball forever. "It's a season-ticket to one of the greatest years in baseball history. John Rosengren has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books to come along in years." - Jonathan Eig, author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
by Brandon Lang, Beating The Odds Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Beating The Odds book, Offers the story of the incredible, roller coaster life of Brandon Lang, an acclaimed sports handicapper, who stumbled in and out of wild successes and failures throughout his career, most recently becoming the subject of the major motion picture Two for the Money.
Author: David King Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Release Date: 2004 Book Size: 27.23 MB Book Format: PDF, Mobi Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 232 View: 3540
by David King, San Antonio At Bat Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download San Antonio At Bat book, Traces the history of professional baseball in San Antonio from 1888 to the present, highlighting key players, coaches, teams, and events that have defined the sport.