Rounding Third, Heading Home!

Rounding Third, Heading Home!
Author: David Aretha
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766038769

Easy-to-read, fast-paced, action-packed sports-themed stories will entice readers as they follow along with the main character in each story who faces, and then solves, interesting life challenges. Simultaneous.

Joe

Joe
Author: Greg Hoard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781933197463

The biography of Cincinnati Reds legendary pitcer, Joe Nuxhall who later became the beloved Reds announcer for over thirty years.

Headed Home

Headed Home
Author: Glenn Wilson
Publisher: Lucid Books
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2011-11-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1935909312

Wilson, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in 1980, played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball. Injuries and disappointment shortened his career, and when investments soured causing business ventures to fail, he found himself living in pain and misery. In that pain, he came to know what it meant to truly have a relationship with God.

Say It Ain't So, Joe!

Say It Ain't So, Joe!
Author: Donald Gropman
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999
Genre: Baseball players
ISBN: 9780806521152

This immensely readable biography tells the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson, generally considered baseball's greatest natural hitter ever--but who was implicated in the most notorious sports scandal in American history. of photos.

Hitting the Curveballs

Hitting the Curveballs
Author: Jay Myers
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1614487162

In Hitting the Curveballs, small business owner Jay Myers coaches entrepreneurs to use crises to grow their business by inspiring them to embrace new strategies, including creative employee recruiting methods, niche marketing, using your book as a hook, and much more. Myers tells the story of how he led his own company to more than double its sales to $25 million from 2007 to 2011, when they lost 80% of their sales team and faced the worst economy in living memory. Buy this book if you want the encouraging voice of an experienced hitter behind you next time you step up to the plate.

Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer

Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer
Author: Bill Staples, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-08-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0786485248

While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues, or of their most influential figure, Kenichi Zenimura (1900-1968). A talented player who excelled at all nine positions, Zenimura was also a respected manager and would become the Japanese American community's baseball ambassador. He worked tirelessly to promote the game at home and abroad, leading goodwill trips to Asia, helping to negotiate tours of Japan by Negro League All-Stars and Babe Ruth, and establishing a 32-team league behind the barbed wire of Arizona's Gila River Internment Camp during World War II. This first biography of the "Father of Japanese-American Baseball" delivers a thorough and fascinating account of Zenimura's life.

Matty in the Goal

Matty in the Goal
Author: Stuart A. P. Murray
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766048691

Matty Wells loves soccer. Unfortunately, he isn't any good at it. And he certainly isn't the hero of his team, the Canyon Cannons, like the star player Gibb Moore. Matty volunteers to be the team's new goalie, but things don't get any better. Gibb scores the goals for the team and gets the glory, while Matty stands untested in the goal. Then Matty meets a new coach, Bobako, who helps him practice and improve his skills. Can Matty become the team's new superstar? Will he be able to make the big save in the team's final game? Follow Matty in this action-packed soccer fiction story as he learns to play goalie like a champion.

Todd Goes for the Goal

Todd Goes for the Goal
Author: Stuart A. P. Murray
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766045862

In this fictional story, Todd can't believe it when he gets a chance to play for the Highfield High varsity soccer team. As a freshman, he will have to prove to the older players that he deserves his spot, but he hates how the bullies on the team cheat to win games. When Todd's family moves to a new town, Ross Corners, he must confront these bullies on the field. Even worse, he must score against his best friend, Will, the best goalie in the state. Can Todd lead his new team to victory?

Batting Ninth

Batting Ninth
Author: Kris Rutherford
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1464604487

Chad Griffin can't hit a baseball to save his life. When he steps up to home plate, he usually leaves after the umpire shouts, "Strike Three." He always bats in the same spot for the Rangers, ninth, the worst hitter on the team. Even worse, he falls short of his dad's high expectations, but when the Rangers get a major-league all-star as their new coach, Chad's hitting begins to turn around, but hitting a baseball isn't Chad's only problem. As his team strives for the championship trophy, Chad learns the value of playing the game the right way in this fast-paced fiction adventure.

Intentional Walk

Intentional Walk
Author: Hugh Poland
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780817015435

Featuring stories about Curt Schilling, Frank Pastore, Ted Williams, Rube Waddell, and Ty Cobb, and drawing spiritual insight from these modern parables, this volume of devotionals will appeal to fans of America's favorite pastime--baseball.