They Call Me Pudge

They Call Me Pudge
Author: Ivan Rodriguez
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1633197492

With 14 All-Star appearances, 13 Gold Gloves, a Most Valuable Player Award, and, of course, a World Series ring, Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez has more than earned his spot in Cooperstown as one of the best Major League catchers of all time. In They Call Me Pudge, Rodriguez tells the story of his unforgettable baseball journey, from signing his first professional contract as a 16 year-old in Puerto Rico, to his years in Texas, Detroit, and beyond, to the World Series stage in Miami, and behind the doors of the Texas Rangers front office. Rodriguez's accomplishments, his teammates, and his biggest challenges all receive time in the spotlight in this refreshing memoir of a life and Hall-of-Fame career.

Pudge

Pudge
Author: Doug Wilson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466872349

Pudge marks the first biography of the Hall of Fame catcher, whose famous home run in the 1975 World Series has been called one of the greatest moment in the history of televised sport. Carlton Fisk retired having played in more games and hit more home runs than any other catcher before him. A baseball superstar in the 1970s and 80s, Fisk was known not just for his dedication to the sport and tremendous plays but for the respect with which he treated the game. A homegrown icon, Fisk rapidly became the face of one of the most storied teams in baseball, the Boston Red Sox of the 1970s. As a rookie making only $12,000 a year, he became the first player to unanimously win the American League Rookie of the Year award in 1972, upping both his pay grade and national recognition. Fisk's game-winning home run in Game Six of the hotly-contested 1975 World Series forever immortalized him in one of the sport's most exciting televised moments. Fisk played through an epic period of player-owner relations, including the dawn of free agency, strikes, and collusions. After leaving Boston under controversy in 1981, he joined the Chicago White Sox, where he played for 12 more major league seasons, solidifying his position as one of the best catchers of all time. Doug Wilson, finalist for both the Casey Award and Seymour Medal for his previous baseball biographies, uses his own extensive research and interviews with childhood friends and major league teammates to examine the life and career of a leader who followed a strict code and played with fierce determination.

Thoughts from Pudge

Thoughts from Pudge
Author: Mary Knox-Johnson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005-08-22
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1477181652

Thoughts from Pudge follows the real life antics of Pudge, a mixed breed, all American dog as he encounters various adventures. His first person narrative reveals some of his little idiosyncrasies which will give all of those who read an opportunity to laugh at the little waif who nearly lost his life at the end of a shotgun. Nine months of the year, Pudge lives on a forty acre farm, the other three months he spends in northern Minnesota on the lake with his friends, McGuyver, Beowulf, and Cooper (all canines of course).

Pudge and Prejudice

Pudge and Prejudice
Author: A. K. Pittman
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2021
Genre: Body image
ISBN: 1496442822

A Mixtape of Big '80s Style, High School Angst, and a Classic Jane Austen Tale It's 1984, and after moving to Northenfield, Texas, with her family, Elyse Nebbitt faces the challenge of finding her place in a new school, one dominated by social status and Friday night football. When Elyse's effortlessly beautiful older sister, Jayne, starts dating golden boy Charlie Bingley, Elyse finds herself curious about Charlie's popular and brooding best friend, Billy Fitz. Billy's notion of "girlfriend material" and Elyse's own body insecurities eventually complicate their relationship, leaving Jayne and Elyse's exceedingly blunt friend Lottie to step in and help Elyse accept herself for who she is, jeans size and all.

Hubert the Pudge

Hubert the Pudge
Author: Henrik Drescher
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763619922

As one of many Pudgies awaiting their trip to the meat factory from the Pudge Processing Farm, little Hubert escapes to the jungle where the animals show him all the good foods he can eat and, as a result, he becomes the first Pudge to achieve full size since ancient times.

The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp

The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp
Author: Lee Marrs
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2016-07-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781534775992

Teenage runaway plumpie Pudge hitchhikes to San Francisco in the early 1970s with a dread secret: she is still a virgin. Desperate to solve her dilemma, she launches into the vibrant circus of urban life - street protests, self-help clinics, burglary, job hunting and midnight pizzas. Assisted by her guardian Martians and backed by her commune, she may have found her potential beau, a clueless police detective. Or maybe the delivery boy? There's that chakra-spouting political activist with rampant pimples? But what about her fellow consciousness-raising group member Jane, she with such warm knowledgeable hands...' A feminist journey fraught with angst and anchovies.

Gangster

Gangster
Author: Lorenzo Carcaterra
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2002-07-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0345459547

Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra’s new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption. Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family—the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals—in friendship, in his brutal business, in love—yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen. As the years pass, as enemies are made and defeated, as wars are fought and won, the old don meets an abandoned boy who needs a parent as much as protection. By taking Gabe under his wing and teaching him everything he knows, Angelo Vestieri will learn, in the winter of his life, which is greater: his love for the boy he cherishes, or his need to be a gangster and to live by the savage rules he helped create. A sweeping panoramic with riveting characters, a unique understanding of the underworld philosophy, and a relentless pace, Gangster travels through the time of godfathers and goodfellas to our own world of suburban Sopranos. But this is more than just an authentic chronicle of crime. Setting a new standard for this acclaimed author, Gangster is a compassionate portrait of one man's fight against his fate—and an unforgettable epic of a family, a city, a century.

The Deacon Cross

The Deacon Cross
Author: JM Ruth
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2011-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1105288463

The Deacon Cross brings you twenty chapters in the lives of The Deacons, the gang that controls South Philadelphia. The chapters range from chronicling the Deacons war with rival gangs, the members personal lives, and the gang's impact on their city.

Shadow of Perception

Shadow of Perception
Author: Kristine Mason
Publisher: Kristine Mason
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0989479013

What happens when negligent plastic surgeons get a taste of their own medicine…? Chicago investigative reporter, Eden Risk, receives an unmarked envelope containing a postcard ordering her to watch the enclosed DVD…or someone else dies. No police. After Eden watches the DVD, a gruesome, horrifying surgery, she turns to the private criminal investigation agency, CORE, for help. Only she hadn’t expected that help to come with a catch. Her former lover, Hudson Patterson, has been assigned to the case. Hudson would rather have another CORE agent handle the investigation. Two years ago, he’d screwed things up with Eden…bad. And as more DVDs arrive, Eden and Hudson find themselves not only knee-deep in a twisted investigation, but forced to deal with their past, and the love they’d tried to deny.

Boys' Life

Boys' Life
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1939-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.