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Author | : Jonah Newman |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2024-03-26 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1524894656 |
A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-autobiographical LGBTQ+ graphic novel. Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what’s he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot? For the rest of high school, Jonah faces challenges on and off the baseball field, from heteronormative social pressure to thrilling romance. Realizing who his real friends are, he figures out what really matters and finally recognizes and embraces his gay identity. Based on debut author-illustrator Jonah Newman’s coming-of-age experiences, Out of Left Field is a big-hearted and funny YA graphic novel about learning to be yourself. “Brilliantly written and illustrated high school story that deftly showcases the triumphs and regrets of friendship and finding oneself. A remarkable debut!” —Dav Pilkey, #1 bestselling graphic novelist “First base, first boyfriends, and believing in yourself—Out of Left Field is a charming tour of the mistakes and triumphs of coming out in high school.” —Ngozi Ukazu, award-winning creator of Check, Please!
Author | : Arnold M. Zwicky |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027221111 |
Transformational Grammar's Underground Classic! Back in Print in the Nick of Time! (Just as the photocopies were getting too fuzzy to read!)Here is the complete and unexpurgated version of the legendary lost classic of porno- and scatolinguistic theory. Included are the seminal writings of Quang Phuc Dong (English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject), Yuck Foo (A Selectional Restriction Involving Pronoun Choice), V. Anantalinguam ("Up Yours" and Related Constructions), Ebbing Craft (Up Against the Wall, Fascist Pig Critics!) and other lost eminences.
Author | : Jeffrey Lyons |
Publisher | : Three Rivers Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
With an introduction by Bob Costas of NBC Sports, Out of Left Field is the perfect book for the baseball fan who has read it all. Jeffrey and Douglas Lyons's three years of research have dug out a diamond mine of fascinating, never-before-seen gems, such as: Themajor league team that broadcasts all of its games in London The mother and son who both played pro ball The .252 hitter who had an entire town named after him The only big-leaguer directed by Alfred Hitchcock With a question and answer format, Out of Left Field is the one book that diehard baseball fans will savor from cover to cover.
Author | : Rebecca Trachtenberg Alpert |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190619138 |
"In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team of black Jews from Belleville, Virginia called the Belleville Grays--the only Jewish team in the history of black baseball--made their mark on the segregated world of the Negro Leagues. Through in-depth research, Alpert tells the stories of the Jewish businessmen who owned and promoted teams as they both acted out and fell victim to pervasive stereotypes of Jews as greedy middlemen and hucksters. Some Jewish owners produced a kind of comedy baseball, akin to basketball's Harlem Globetrotters--indeed, Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein was very active in black baseball--that reaped financial benefits for both owners and players but also played upon the worst stereotypes of African Americans and prevented these black "showmen" from being taken seriously by the major leagues. But Alpert also shows how Jewish entrepreneurs, motivated in part by the traditional Jewish commitment to social justice, helped grow the business of black baseball in the face of the oppressive Jim Crow restrictions, and how radical journalists writing for the Communist Daily Worker argued passionately for an end to baseball's segregation."--From publisher description.
Author | : Josh Ostergaard |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1566893453 |
A humorous, historical, and hirsute miscellany that's the baseball book Howard Zinn would have written, if he hated the Yankees.
Author | : Stacy DeKeyser |
Publisher | : Margaret K. McElderry Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534406271 |
“Laugh-out-loud fun…A winner in every way.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Funny and good-hearted.” —Publishers Weekly A boy who loves baseball must get past his hard-working immigrant parents—and the rhino in the outfield—to become a batboy in this laugh-out-loud middle grade novel in the tradition of The Sandlot. Nick wants to change his life. For twelve years, he’s done what his hard-working, immigrant parents want him to do. Now he’s looking for his own American dream and he thinks he’s found it. The local baseball team is having a batboy contest, and Nick wants to win. But the contest is on a Saturday—the day Nick has to work in his father’s shop. There’s one other tiny—well, not so tiny—problem. A 2,000-pound rhinoceros named Tank. Nick and his friends play ball in the city zoo—and Tank lives just beyond the right field fence. Nick’s experience getting the ball out of Tank’s pen has left him frozen with fear whenever a fly ball comes his way. How’s a lousy fielder going to win the contest? Nick practices every day with his best friend, Ace, and a new girl who has an impressive throwing arm! But that’s not enough—to get to the contest, Nick has to lie to his parents and blackmail his uncle. All while dodging the school bully, who’s determined to win even by playing dirty. Nick will need to keep his eye on the ball in this fast, funny story about a game that can throw you some curveballs—just like life!
Author | : Dan Gutman |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780590137614 |
Lee Maigam considered himself something of a monster expert and thought it unlikely for a monster to be hanging around a baseball field, but then he met Bigfoot.
Author | : Matt Christopher |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2009-12-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316095796 |
A poor throwing arm and prejudice from one white boy keep a black junior high student from completely enjoying his position on the baseball team.
Author | : Raymond Mungo |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780525241683 |
Author | : Willie Stargell |
Publisher | : Two Continents Publishing Group, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1976-01-01 |
Genre | : Baseball players |
ISBN | : 9780846701279 |