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Branch Rickey
Par Jimmy Breslin. 2011
The book that inspired Harrison Ford in his portrayal of Branch Rickey in the hit movie 42” In a brilliant…
match between author and subject, this latest addition to the Penguin Lives series features the inimitable Jimmy Breslin telling the rags-to-riches tale of Branch Rickey, the legendary manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who integrated baseball by putting Jackie Robinson into the major leagues. Moving from the dusty Midwest towns where Rickey built baseball's farm system to the Brooklyn streets where he hatched his most famous plan, Breslin brilliantly captures the heady days when baseball became the national pastime. What emerges is the irresistible story of a schemer and redeemer, a great American who remade a sport-and dreamed of remaking a country. See Branch Rickey’s life brought to the screen in the hit movie 42” in theaters everywhere now. .What s it like to be a maniac on a mission From the worlds of performance engineering…
product development drag racing auto racing and human creativity go beyond with THE ECLECTIC 18 Learn tipping points key to the success of The Justice Brothers oil empire uncovered only here Realize lessons from Funny Car NHRA pioneer John Force s rise to racing supremacy and how his success - and failures - may improve your life Discover the Top Ten Tommy Teachings shocking ways to survive absolute terminal cancer from one driven competitor Absorb how a car known as Big Noise II dominated a man s life and a tragedy What about My First Car of yours how does it stack up against Hugh Hefner s Steve McQueen s and many others you will know Just try to be as big and creative in your thinking as TV Tommy Ivo Drag Racing s Master Showman Take to heart a real maniac on a mission Mickey Thompson the Fast Life and Tragic Death of a Racing Legend Use these readings for their lessons in life then apply them Joyfully Dance the Western Swing Light the Dark plus recognize what happens when one doubles down in Vegas with nitro chips Understand the spectacle resulting When 10000 Horsepower Goes Wrong With THE ECLECTIC 18 you too may just be one of The New Kids on the Winner s Block of life Find deeper meanings and helpful insights on striving to succeed and becoming relevant that also entertains THE ECLECTIC 18 traded the safety of emotional equilibrium for their compulsion to unabashedly collide with life s vicissitudes with unrelenting verve Jeff Kildahl Ph D Creator and President The Wholistic EdgeDwightmare
Par Orlando Sentinel Staff, Brian Schmitz. 2012
As the last seconds ticked down at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the most bizarre, tumultuous and cursed season in…
the 23-year history of the Orlando Magic mercifully came to an end. Coach Stan Van Gundy, known to keep coaching until the final buzzer, walked to the opposing bench with 10 seconds left in the lopsided playoff elimination game to congratulate young Frank Vogel, coach of the Indiana Pacers. Even more conspicuous than this rare mid-game conciliatory gesture from Van Gundy was the absence of the team's most recognizable, talented superstar: Dwight Howard.Howard had always talked about winning a championship and bringing joy to Orlando. Despite this, the face of the franchise did not show his face throughout the playoffs, opting to undergo three weeks' worth of rehabilitation in the Los Angeles area following his season-ending back injury. This sour finale was an ignominious ending matched only by this ill-fated season's tumultuous beginning. Entering training camp after a prolonged off-season, Howard stunned the team and town by delivering a defiant trade request to Magic management. Even more devastating for Magic fans was that this request to be dealt to another team was vividly reminiscent of a similar event from a decade ago, when the Magic's last franchise star center, Shaquille O'Neal, abandoned Florida for the Los Angeles Lakers.Howard and the Magic for so long seemed like the perfect match, and had even grown up together in many ways. The 2004 NBA draft brought together a skinny, devoutly religious teenage sensation and a squeaky-clean, family-run ownership down on its luck. Howard blossomed into a global superstar, turning the Magic into contenders. The city of Orlando embraced its new happy-go-lucky hero and fell in love with its basketball team again. They were once inseparable, as close as a player and a franchise could possibly be in today's NBA.What followed was one of the most bizarre reality shows to befall any professional sports team in memory, with Howard taking the Magic on a wild, emotional and confounding ride. There was presidential-like flip-flopping, a near trade, an 11th-hour reprieve, farcical front-office fumbling, YouTube moments, a drunk-dialing accusation, media shenanigans and one heart-attack scare, among other things. And the soap opera is far from over. Follow the Orlando Sentinel's unmatched coverage of this ongoing saga with Dwightmare: Dwight Howard, the Orlando Magic, and the Season of Dysfunction. From the very beginning of Howard's career through the ouster of coach Stan Van Gundy and general manager Otis Smith, this book is the only place where the entirety of this saga's sordid details have been collected, analyzed, and boiled down to their bare facts. Dwightmare is a must read for Orlando Magic and basketball fans everywhere.Roughing It
Par Mark Twain, Hamlin Hill. 1981
A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in…
timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.Vanilla Beans And Brodo
Par Isabella Dusi. 2001
When Isobel Dusi visited Italy with her Australian husband Lou, little did they imagine that life would change forever. But,…
utterly besotted with the fragrant warmth and good-natured conviviality of Southern Tuscany, they decided to sell up their lives in the big city and move thousands of miles to follow the dream of a life more in keeping with ancient rhythms and time-honoured traditions of the Mediterranean. After months of searching they settled upon Montalcino, an intriguing hilltop medieval village with a reputation for some of the finest wine in Italy. VANILLA BEANS AND BRODO is an account of Isobel's hard-won acceptance into this tempestuous, warm-hearted and proudly independent community, whose voluble passions for home grown wine and Tuscan cuisine, for football and ancient traditions and festivals, puts paid to the myth that life in rural Tuscany is tranquil. Isobel and Lou are gradually transformed into Isabella and Luigi in this charming account of Tuscan village life that really gets to the beating heart of an Italian community - its joys, pleasures, anxieties, but above all, its absorbing eccentricities.Lost and Found
Par Geoff Dalglish. 2012
Tackling the goal to walk 25,000 miles -the equivalent of the circumference of the planet - one man shares life-changing…
insights through his personal travel vignettes. Formerly a thrill-seeking journalist, Geoff Dalglish begins his impressive expedition after undergoing a spiritual and ecological awakening at the Findhorn center in Scotland. His deliberate journey from Timbuktu to Antarctica to Hollywood unfolds in vivid and inspiring detail, revealing a wealth of unimaginable experiences while sharing a message about treading lightly on the Earth. From the horrors of bloody civil unrest and death-defying moments at the hands of armed guerilla soldiers to close encounters with the animal kingdom and finding healing balm within spiritual communities, this roller coaster of adventure chronicles a deeper quest for meaning that culminates in the joys of a life lived in simplicity and service.The Heat Reign
Par South Florida Sun Sentinel Staff. 2012
In Summer 2010, LeBron James took his talents to South Beach, bringing with him Chris Bosh to partner with Miami…
Heat superstar Dwyane Wade. The Big Three talked of winning multiple NBA championships and enormous expectations began to build-pressure that grew even stronger when the Heat lost the 2011 NBA Finals to the Dallas Mavericks.There were rumblings about breaking up the team, or firing coach Erik Spoelstra, or both. New players joined the cast, and with James producing a league MVP season, the Heat rolled into the Eastern Conference finals despite injuries that limited the effectiveness of Bosh and Wade. Winning a championship would test the team like never before.Down 3 games to 2 in the East finals after losing at home in Game 5, Miami faced elimination and a defining moment for James. A spectacular performance by James forced a Game 7 in Miami, where a victory sent the Heat on to face the Oklahoma City Thunder-and clash with superstar Kevin Durant.Relive the Heat's march to the NBA championship with stories, columns and photos from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. From the unsung heroes to James's MVP performance and the post-title celebration, it's a story of validation, vindication and the ultimate victory.The Third Tower
Par Antal Szerb, Len Rix. 1936
In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the…
coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self-revelations. From Venice, he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna, to stand, fulfilling a lifelong dream, before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale.This journey into his private past brings Antal Szerb firmly, and at times painfully, up against an explosive present, producing some memorable observations on the social wonders and existential horrors of Mussolini's new Roman Imperium.From the Trade Paperback edition.Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything*
Par Gareth Higgins. 2013
A Northern Irish writer explores his adopted homeland through film in this irreverent yet moving journey through each of the…
50 states. Set among a personal backdrop of immigration memoir, he takes on American myths in their most powerful form--the motion picture--by setting out to determine if a Kansas yellow brick road really does lead to the end of the rainbow, and whether it first has to pass through Colorado's Overlook Hotel. Amid the multipurpose woodchippers, friendly exorcists, and faulty motel showers, resurrected baseball players, and miracle-working gardeners, he examines what the stories we tell reveal about American lives and uses this to sum up what he has learned about the promises, failures, and hope that is America.The Terracotta Madonna
Par Isabella Dusi. 2014
Set twenty years after VANILLA BEANS & BRODO and ten years after BEL VINO, MARY KNOWS continues the story of…
Australians Isabella and Luigi, who gave up their lives to move to the medieval Montalcino, a village in Tuscany. Isabella tells of a Tuscany that is closer to reality than the mystical dream it is so often portrayed to be. Her true story involves not only her personal struggles in moving and adapting to Montalcino (her reasons for which are a secret that none in the village knows), but also of the curious rituals and traditions within a society that struggles to cope with the modern world.I’m Off Then
Par Hape Kerkeling. 2006
I'm Off Then has sold more than three million copies in Germany and has been translated into eleven languages. The…
number of pilgrims along the Camino has increased by 20 percent since the book was published. Hape Kerkeling's spiritual journey has struck a chord.A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands: Of the Civil, Religious, and Political History of Those Islands
Par Hiram Bingham, Terence Barrow. 1981
The fascinating personal account from one of the first Westerners to live in Hawaii.A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the…
Sandwich Islands, by the Reverend Hiram Bingham, was first printed in New York in 1847. The book provides a panoramic history of Hawaii from before its discovery in 1778 by Captain James Cook up to 1845. Hiram Bingham became Hawaii's most notable missionary, an adviser to kings and queens, and was truly one of Hawaii's most influential historical figures. His work did much to transform old Hawaii into a new Hawaii. He was a child of his time, an ardent advocate of the Calvinistic Christianity of New England. He was unsympathetic to the traditional Hawaiian culture, yet his book tells us an enormous amount about Hawaiians as well as the missionary endeavors of himself and his colleagues.Personally Bingham was a man of great courage in a world of danger. Whaleers and their bottles of grog, the condemnation of those who opposed him, his worries about backsliding chiefs, wayward boy and girl converts, monarchs who liked alcohol-all these were very real problems to Bingham and his colleagues, amusing though they may seem to us today.No Excuses
Par Marcus Brotherton, Derrick Coleman. 2015
The first deaf athlete to play offense in the NFL (and win a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks!) relates…
his inspirational story of hard work and determination in his own words. Great for readers of all ages.The inspirational memoir from the popular current Seattle Seahawks running back Derrick Coleman Jr., who, in just his second year in the NFL, won the 2014 Super Bowl with the Seahawks. Showcasing his unlikely and challenging journey to become the first deaf offensive NFL player, he talks about overcoming internal obstacles and external obstacles (bullies and naysayers) in the course of reaching your true potential.Positively False
Par Floyd Landis, Loren Mooney. 2007
THE SERIES OF EVENTS surrounding Floyd Landis's 2006 Tour de France was as improbable as anything in the history of…
sports: He showed up nine seconds late for the race's opening prologue, donned the leader's yellow jersey twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in remarkable fashion just before the Tour's final stage into Paris. Winning the Tour should have been the culmination of a life's dream, but a mere three days later, Landis was accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs. Released by his team and threatened with the removal of his Tour title, Landis went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to being unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a doper. Positively Falseis at once a memoir and a powerful indictment of the unchecked governing bodies of cycling that have compromised theintegrity of the sport as a whole. From leaving the Mennonite community of his youth in order to pursue his passion for cycling, to riding alongside Lance Armstrong for three years -- with whom he shared the same work ethic and competitive desire -- Floyd Landis details the highs and lows of his career with unabashed honesty. It is this same honesty with which he will clear his name once and for all, as he lays bare the inner workings of the cycling world -- a place where athletes are subject to the antiquated science, flawed interpretive protocols, and draconian legal processes of the anti-doping agencies -- and finally lays to rest the scandal that threatened to destroy everything he's worked so hard to achieve. . . .The Best Travel Writing
Par Tim Cahill, Sean O'Reilly, James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger. 2012
The Best Travel Writing, Volume 9 is the latest in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate…
the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisines and cultures.The Breakaway
Par Nicole Cooke. 2014
A retirement statement from a sports star rarely causes a flicker, but Nicole Cooke went out as she rode her…
bike: giving it her all. The contrast could not have been greater - as Lance Armstrong, a fraudster backed by many corporate sponsors and feted by presidents, was about to deliver a stage-managed confession to Oprah, so a young woman from a small village in Wales took aim. She too had been a cyclist, the only rider ever to have become World and Olympic champion in the same year, and the first British cyclist to have been ranked World No.1, but as a woman in a man's sport, her exploits gained little recognition and brought no riches. She too had ridden through this dark period for the sport when drug-taking was everywhere. Nicole Cooke spoke up for those who had taken a very different path to Lance and his team-mates. In her frank and outspoken autobiography, Cooke reveals the real story behind British cycling's rise to global dominance. With a child's dreams of success, she left home at 18 to pursue her goals in Italy. Broken contracts, unpaid wages, a horrendous injury and drugs cheats were just some of the challenges she faced, even before she lined up to take on her opponents. The Breakaway is a book that will not only inspire all those who read it, but which also asks some serious questions about the way society regards women's sport.Lawrence Grassi
Par Gabriele Scardellato, Elio Costa. 2015
Lawrence Grassi was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. A working-class man of humble Italian origins who worked…
as a labourer and a coal miner for most of his life, Grassi had a deep passion for the Rocky Mountains. He was famous in the region for his commitment as a guide, a mountain climber, and a builder of greatly admired hiking trails. Today, in or near Canmore, his name graces a mountain, two lakes, and a school, and he is commemorated at Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park.In Lawrence Grassi: From Piedmont to the Rocky Mountains, Elio Costa and Gabriele Scardellato uncover the deeply private man behind this legend, from his birth in the small Italian village of Falmenta to his long and inspirational career in Canada. Using previously unexamined family letters and extensive information on Grassi's cohort of Italian immigrants, the authors reconstruct his personal and professional life, correcting myths and connecting his story to the long history of Italian immigration to Canada. The definitive biography of this Canadian mountain hero, Lawrence Grassi will be essential reading for those interested in the history of immigration, sport, and the Rocky Mountains.Zoroaster's Children
Par Marius Kociejowski. 2015
Bringing together the best of Marius Kociejowski's travel writing, Zoroaster's Children snags on the borderline between dream and meaning, offering…
unusual glimpses of some of the places, exotic or otherwise, the author has been. Attracted to society's outcasts--as it is these, he argues, which point towards an underground of conformity that will not contain them--Kociejowksi offers in these essays glimpses of locales as diverse and seemingly divergent as Prague, Tunisia, Moscow, Aleppo and Toronto, among others. By turns empathetic and virtuosic, and always on the lookout for the deeper meaning seeded inside language, the essays in Zoroaster's Children evince the deep absorption in a people and a place which are the hallmark of all great travel writers.Duel for the Crown
Par David Rosner, Linda Carroll. 2014
From the moment they first galloped head-to-head in Saratoga Springs, the two chestnut colts showed they were the stuff of…
racing legend. Alydar, all muscle with a fearsome closing kick, was already the popular favorite to win the Kentucky Derby. Affirmed, deceptively laid-back streamlined elegance, was powered forward by his steely determination not to settle for second place. In the Sport of Kings, the Triple Crown is the most valued prize, requiring a horse to win not just one race, but three: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes. And 1978 would not be just for the record books, but also one of the greatest dramas ever played out in the racing world. There were names to conjure with, worthy of the Sport of Kings. The bloodline of Native Dancer. The teen wonderboy jockey Steve Cauthen. The once unbeatable Calumet Farm--the Damn Yankees of the racing world--now in eclipse and hoping for a comeback. The newcomer Harbor View Farm--owned by brash financier Louis Wolfson, who wouldn't let even a conviction and a prison sentence for securities violations stand in the way of his dreams of glory. And the racetracks themselves: Belmont, Saratoga, Pimlico. And, of course, Churchill Downs. It has been thirty-five years since Affirmed and Alydar fought for the Triple Crown, thirty-five years when no other horse has won it. Duel for the Crown brings this epic battle to life. Not just two magnificent Thoroughbreds but the colorful human personalities surrounding them, caught up in an ever-intensifying battle of will and wits that lasted until the photo finish of the final Triple Crown race . . . and Alydar and Affirmed leaped into the history books.My Sporting Heroes
Par Jason Mohammad. 2015
First-hand account from the heart of Welsh sporting action. One of the country's most recognized sport presenters - Jason has…
rubbed shoulders with the greats: from Brazilian footballers Zico, Ronaldinho and Juninho; to rugby giants Graham Henry, Lawrence Dallaglio and Martin Johnson; and even filmstar Al Pacino. In My Sporting Heroes Jason chooses his favourite Welsh sporting stars - including his boyhood hero, the former Wales manager Mark Hughes, Ryan Giggs, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Welsh rugby stars Sam Warburton and Ieuan Evans, boxer Joe Calzaghe and swimmer David Davies - and gives us a personal and intimate view of each of these different characters as well as of life as a TV presenter.