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Davey Johnson

Author : Davey Johnson
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1641250070
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Davey Johnson written by Davey Johnson and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davey Johnson is best known for managing the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, and Baltimore Orioles—and taking all three clubs to their respective league championship series during his time at the helm. When teams needed to improve, they hired Johnson, and he delivered, memorably leading the Mets to the 1986 World Series title. Yet even as he raised the bar of their success, all three clubs parted ways with Johnson, a pattern that puzzles him to this day. A self-termed "army brat," Johnson kept moving, managing the Los Angeles Dodgers then the Washington Nationals before announcing his retirement in 2013. But managing baseball has been just one part of Johnson's fascinating life. A true Renaissance man, Johnson has also found incredible success as a land investor, pilot, scratch golfer, scuba diving teacher, and mathematician, pioneering the use of sabermetrics in the big leagues. Now, Johnson finally takes the time to meditate on his wild and remarkable journey, with reflections on not only his All-Star playing days and years of managerial success in New York, Cincinnati, and Baltimore, but on his entire career.

Bats

Author : Davey Johnson
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553264609
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Bats written by Davey Johnson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1987-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bats is the autobiography of the man who built the New York Mets into the formidable force they now are. Focusing on the 1985 campaign, it is filled with the thrill of the pennant race including plenty of inside information about the players. In light of the 1986 Championship series, Bats is a can't miss bestseller.

American Motocross Illustrated

Author : Simon Cudby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972644129
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book American Motocross Illustrated written by Simon Cudby and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gotham Baseball: New York’s All-Time Team

Author : Mark C. Healey illustrations by
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467141631
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Gotham Baseball: New York’s All-Time Team written by Mark C. Healey illustrations by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball may be the great American pastime, but in New York, it is a religion. Names like Ruth, Mays, Gehrig, Wright and Robinson live in the hearts and minds of New York fans like apostles. From the street corner to the subway car, debates about which Yankee, Giant, Dodger or Met is better than another have raged on for more than one hundred years. Now, the best of the best are chosen for each position as New York's all-time greatest team is imagined. Shoo-ins like the Babe and Jackie have their stories told with a fresh perspective. The compelling case for Mike Piazza, not Yogi Berra, as catcher is sure to spark arguments. Sportswriter Mark Healey crafts the Gotham baseball team through captivating tales of the legends of the New York game.

Baseball Between the Numbers

Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465003737
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Between the Numbers written by Jonah Keri and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.

Davey's Half-Way Home Cafe

Author : Davey Doby
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456726706
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Davey's Half-Way Home Cafe written by Davey Doby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Francis Earline Edison- Broomfi eld and I was born on December 4, 1929. I was the eighth child, third daughter, born to Edd and Lela Edison. I have been trying to cook as long as I can remember. My mama taught me to do my best. Even if it was only fi eld peas, corn bread, and kool aid. Now after 80 years, I want to leave my soul food recipes to my sons and all my customers at Davey’s HalfWay Home Cafe 5628 Hwy. 15 Louin, MS 39338 Community of Montrose, MS

The Bad Guys Won

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061851965
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Bad Guys Won written by Jeff Pearlman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jeff Pearlman has captured the swagger of the '86 Mets. You don't have to be a Mets fan to enjoy this book—it's a great read for all baseball enthusiasts." —Philadelphia Daily News Award-winning Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named Mookie and the Yankees were the second-best team in New York. It was 1986, and the New York Mets won 108 regular-season games and the World Series, capturing the hearts (and other assorted body parts) of fans everywhere. But their greatness on the field was nearly eclipsed by how bad they were off it. Led by the indomitable Keith Hernandez and the young dynamic duo of Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry, along with the gallant Scum Bunch, the Amazin’s left a wide trail of wreckage in their wake—hotel rooms, charter planes, a bar in Houston, and most famously Bill Buckner and the hated Boston Red Sox. With an unforgettable cast of characters—including Doc, Straw, the Kid, Nails, Mex, and manager Davey Johnson—this “affectionate but critical look at this exciting season” (Publishers Weekly) celebrates the last of baseball’s arrogant, insane, rock-and-roll-and-party-all-night teams, exploring what could have been, what should have been, and what never was.

Pride and Pinstripes

Author : Mel Stottlemyre
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061750360
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Pride and Pinstripes written by Mel Stottlemyre and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a star pitcher and accomplished coach, Mel Stottlemyre has a history that serves as a behind-the-scenes tour of five decades of baseball. From Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford to Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, Stottlemyre connected generations of stars during a remarkable career. In his long-awaited autobiography, Stottlemyre tells his story in colorful detail, from his days as a rookie sensation on the last of the great Mantle teams to those as trusted pitching coach during the Joe Torre administration. Along the way he takes readers inside the clubhouses of champions—describing the defiance of the '86 Mets, from manager Davey Johnson on down, and recalling the true grit and selflessness that helped make Torre's Yankees a dynasty from 1996 to 2000.

Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim

Author : David Sedaris
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748125949
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim written by David Sedaris and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'No one has a turn of phrase like David Sedaris. This series of essays about his life and family is a joy from start to finish' Adam Kay David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new book David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim finds one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today at the peak of his form.

Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers

Author : Society for American Baseball Research (
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803239939
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Pitching, Defense, and Three-Run Homers written by Society for American Baseball Research ( and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the Baltimore Orioles of the 1960's and 1970s in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.

7

Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493013963
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book 7 written by Peter Golenbock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling sportswriter Peter Golenbock knew Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Jim Bouton, Joe Pepitone, and many of Mantle’s friends, family, and teammates. While Mickey was a good person at heart, he had a dark side that went far beyond his well-known alcoholism and infidelities. In this fictional portrait, Mickey--now in heaven--realizes that he’s carrying a huge weight on his shoulders, as he did throughout his life. He needs to unburden himself of all the horrible things he did and understand for himself why he did them. He wants to make amends to the people he hurt, especially those dear to him; the fans he ignored and alienated; and the public who made him into a hero. Mickey never felt he deserved the adulation, could never live up to it, and tried his damnedest to prove it to everyone. The fact that he was human made the public love him that much more. Through the recounting of his exploits on and off the field, some of them side-splittingly hilarious, some disturbing, and others that will make your head shake in sympathy, Mickey comes clean in this novel in the way he never could in real life. 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel puts you inside the locker room and bedroom with an American Icon every bit as flawed and human as we are.

Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl

Author : Chris Donnelly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496214382
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl written by Chris Donnelly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like no other since the Mets came to town in 1962. Never before had both the Yankees and the Mets been in contention for the playoffs so late in the same season. For months New York fans dreamed of the first Subway Series in nearly thirty years, and the Mets and the Yankees vied for their hearts. Despite their nearly identical records, the two teams were drastically different in performance and clubhouse atmosphere. The Mets were filled with young, homegrown talent led by outfielder Darryl Strawberry and pitcher Dwight Gooden. They were complemented by veterans including Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ray Knight, and George Foster. Leading them all was Davey Johnson, a player's manager. It was a team filled with hard‑nosed players who won over New York with their dirty uniforms, curtain calls, after-hours activities, and because, well, they weren't the Yankees. Meanwhile the Yankees featured some of the game's greatest talent. Rickey Henderson, Dave Winfield, Don Mattingly, and Don Baylor led a dynamic offense, while veterans such as Ron Guidry and Phil Niekro rounded out the pitching staff. But the Yankees' abundance of talent was easily overshadowed by their dominating owner, George Steinbrenner, whose daily intrusiveness made the 1985 Yankees appear more like a soap opera than a baseball team. There was a managerial firing before the end of April and the fourth return of Billy Martin as manager. Henderson was fined for missing two games, Lou Piniella almost resigned as coach, and Martin punctured a lung and then gave drunken managerial instructions from his hospital room. Despite all that, the Yankees almost won their division. While the drama inside the Mets' clubhouse only made the team more endearing to fans, the drama inside the Yankees' clubhouse had the opposite effect. The result was the most attention-grabbing and exciting season New York would see in generations. And it was the season the Mets would win the battle for the hearts of New York baseball fans, dominating the New York landscape for nearly a decade, while the Yankees faded into one of baseball's saddest franchises.

White Heat

Author : Wayne Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471109550
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book White Heat written by Wayne Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an old joke among skiers, usually put to other fans of the sport as a question: what's better, sex or skiing? The answer is a given, but the hesitation in answering, that moment of serious consideration, is cause for humour. Extreme skiers get it. They know skiing isn't just a sport; it's a lifestyle, one inextricably bound up in the notion of adventure. This book is all about that adventure, that call to some of the world's best known, and unknown, slopes. About downhill racing, and the sophisticated, international club of competitors and the upstarts who on occasion beat them. Throughout this book are skiing's stars, such as Bode Miller, Stein Erickson and Jean-Claude Killy. This is a book about riding on the edge of danger and surviving it, about the thrill and focus of competition, and the thrill of rescue. It is a book of people; some quirky, some delightful, some strange, some just plain crazy, but all of them drawn to White Heat, the extreme skiing life.

House of Nails

Author : Lenny Dykstra
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062407384
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book House of Nails written by Lenny Dykstra and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tough, straight, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. One of the best sports autobiographies I've ever read. It comes from the heart." —Stephen King Eclipsing the traditional sports memoir, House of Nails, by former world champion, multimillionaire entrepreneur, and imprisoned felon Lenny Dykstra, spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions -- a relentlessly entertaining American epic that careens between the heights and the abyss. Nicknamed "Nails" for his hustle and grit, Lenny approached the game of baseball -- and life -- with mythic intensity. During his decade in the majors as a center fielder for the legendary 1980s Mets and the 1990s Phillies, he was named to three All-Star teams and played in two of the most memorable World Series of the modern era. An overachiever known for his clutch hits, high on-base percentage, and aggressive defense, Lenny was later identified by his former minor-league roommate Billy Beane as the prototypical "Moneyball" player in Michael Lewis's bestseller. Tobacco-stained, steroid-powered, and booze-and-drug-fueled, Nails also defined a notorious era of excess in baseball. Then came a second act no novelist could plausibly conjure: After retiring, Dykstra became a celebrated business mogul and investment guru. Touted as "one of the great ones" by CNBC's Jim Cramer, he became "baseball's most improbable post-career success story" (The New Yorker), purchasing a $17.5-million mansion and traveling the world by private jet. But when the economy imploded in 2008, Lenny lost everything. Then the feds moved in: convicted of bankruptcy fraud (unjustly, he contends), Lenny served two and a half harrowing years in prison, where he was the victim of a savage beating by prison guards that knocked out his front teeth. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, channeling the bewildered fascination of many observers, declared that Lenny's outrageous rise and spectactular fall was "the greatest story that I have ever seen in my lifetime." Now, for the first time, Lenny tells all about his tumultuous career, from battling through crippling pain to steroid use and drug addiction, to a life of indulgence and excess, then, an epic plunge and the long road back to redemption. Was Lenny's hard-charging, risk-it-all nature responsible for his success in baseball and business and his precipitous fall from grace? What lessons, if any, has he learned now that he has had time to think and reflect? Hilarious, unflinchingly honest, and irresistibly readable, House of Nails makes no apologies and leaves nothing left unsaid.

Justice Older Than the Law

Author : Katie McCabe
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604737743
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Justice Older Than the Law written by Katie McCabe and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to minister--in all these places, Roundtree sought justice. At a time when African American attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathroom, Roundtree took on Washington's white legal establishment and prevailed, winning a 1955 landmark bus desegregation case that would help to dismantle the practice of "separate but equal" and shatter Jim Crow laws. Later, she led the vanguard of women ordained to the ministry in the AME Church in 1961, merging her law practice with her ministry to fight for families and children being destroyed by urban violence."--Amazon.com.

Girardi

Author : Kevin Kernan
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1600785824
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Girardi written by Kevin Kernan and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from more than 60 interviews and hours of face time, this authorized biography offers an unprecedented inside-the-dugout look at the manager who guided the New York Yankees to their 27th world championship. Beginning with his childhood in the baseball mecca of Chicago, this book traces Joe Girardi's rise from a catcher at Northwestern University to his time in the minors, his 15 years in the majors, and his successful career as a manager. As much a character portrait of the man as a chronicle of his achievements, this study reveals the amalgam of influences--the relentless work ethic learned from his father combined with the systematic mind of an engineer, the baseball know-how instilled by the likes of Don Zimmer and Joe Torre, and the heart of his tenacious mother--that combined to propel Girardi to his current stature.

The Life & Times of a Big Ten Official

Author : Linda Davey Johnson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 143897504X
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Life & Times of a Big Ten Official written by Linda Davey Johnson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter celebrates her father's life work as a Big Ten official.