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Author : Robert C. Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ernie Davis, the Elmira Express written by Robert C. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic, inspirational story of Ernie Davis
Author : Robert C. Gallagher
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345510879
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Express written by Robert C. Gallagher and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He could do it all, beat every opponent . . . except one.” –plaque honoring Ernie Davis, in the lobby of Elmira Free Academy Ernie Davis was an All-American on the gridiron, and a man of integrity off the field. A multi-sport high school star in Elmira, New York, Davis went on to Syracuse University, where as a sophomore he led his team to an undefeated season and a national championship in 1959, and earned his nickname, the Elmira Express. Two seasons later, Davis had broken the legendary Jim Brown’s rushing records, and became the first black athlete to be awarded the Heisman Trophy. The number one pick in the 1962 NFL draft, Davis signed a contract with the Cleveland Browns and appeared to be headed for professional stardom. But Davis never ended up playing in the NFL: He was diagnosed with leukemia during the summer before his rookie season and succumbed to the disease less than a year later. In battling his illness, Davis showed great dignity and courage, inspired the nation, and moved President John F. Kennedy to eulogize him as “ an outstanding man of great character.” An enduring story of a true scholar-athlete, The Express is a touching, impeccably researched, deeply personal portrait of Ernie Davis, and a vivid look at sport in America at the dawn of the Civil Rights era.
Author : Robert C. Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Ernie Davis written by Robert C. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael G. D’Aloisio
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 144905420X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)
Download or read book 5 C Hero written by Michael G. D’Aloisio and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 C Hero is the inspirational story of Joel Stephens, a truly gifted athlete and devout Christian, who lived the values of Christianity, Courage, Compassion, Character, and Commitment. With the brightest of futures ahead of him, Stephens lost his battle with a rare form of cancer in 1998 at the age of 22. DAloisio, as coach, mentor, and friend, knew Stephens better than most. In this book, he chronicles the record-setting athletic exploits of Joel throughout his high school years as well as his professional career as a baseball player in the Baltimore Orioles organization, and his decision to accept a scholarship to play Division I football for Syracuse University. In many ways, Joels story parallels that of Ernie Davis, the Elmira Express, who was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy. More important than any athletic achievements, Joels faith and his concern for others are the qualities that define Joel Stephens. DAloisio takes the reader on a painful odyssey as Joel accepts his illness yet valiantly struggles to overcome it. This tragic story is told with humor, intensity, and great warmth. It is remarkable that Stephens touched so many lives in such a short period of time. Even after his death, his legacy continues to grow through the Joel Stephens Foundation and other charitable organizations and events held in his honor. For those who knew Joel, this book will bring them even closer to an old friend; for those who never had the opportunity to meet Joel in person, this book will help you realize what you missed.
Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318850
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Waiting for the Morning Train written by Bruce Catton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.
Author : Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 written by Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Maron
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812982789
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Attempting Normal written by Marc Maron and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Marc Maron is “a master of spinning humor out of anguish” (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty-five stories from his life and near-death, from his first comedy road trips (with a fugitive junkie comic with a missing tooth) to his love affair with feral animals (his cat rescues are bloody epics) to his surprisingly moving tales of lust, heartbreak, and hope. The stories are united by Maron’s thrilling storytelling style—intensely smart, disarmingly honest, and explosively funny. Together, they add up to a hilarious and moving tale of failing, flailing, and finding a way. Praise for Attempting Normal “I laughed so hard reading this book.”—David Sedaris “Funny . . . surprisingly deep . . . laced with revelatory insights.”—Los Angeles Times “Superb . . . A reason that [it] is a superior example of an overcrowded genre—the comedian memoir—is Mr. Maron’s hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.”—The New York Times “Marc Maron is a legend because he is both a great comic and a brilliant mind. Attempting Normal is a deep, hilarious megashot of feeling and truth as only this man can administer.”—Sam Lipsyte Praise for Marc Maron and WTF “The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone “Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K. “I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross “Revered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly “Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times “For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow
Author : Steve Jacobson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556527918
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Carrying Jackie's Torch written by Steve Jacobson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 to 1968 are chronicled in this compelling volume. Players share their personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with a sometimes begrudged appreciation for their tremendous talents. Stories include incidents of white players who gave up promising careers in baseball because they wouldn t play with a black teammate, the Georgia law that forbade a black player from dressing in the same clubhouse as the white players, the quotas for the number of blacks on a team, and how salary negotiations without agents or free agency were akin to a plantation system for both black and white players. The 20 players profiled include Ernie Banks, Alvin Jackson, Charlie Murray, Chuck Harmon, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, and Bob Watson. "
Author : Rick Reilly
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0767906640
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Shanks for Nothing written by Rick Reilly and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly’s beloved bestselling golf novel Missing Links Life is going pretty well for Raymond “Stick” Hart. He’s happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son, Charlie, and getting by writing smart-mouthed greeting cards for fifty bucks a pop. Best of all, nothing has changed at Ponky, the worst golf course in America. You still have to hook it past the toxic waste dump on No. 1 and under the billboard on No. 8, the fried-egg sandwiches are terrible but cheap, and his pal Two Down is always up for a sucker bet. Then, one disaster of a day, Stick’s world does a ten-car pile-up. The cheapskate bastard owner of Ponky announces he’s retiring to a nudist camp in Florida and selling the club to the Mayflower Club next door, a bastion of blue-blood snobbery that plans to pave Ponky over. Worse, its membership includes Stick’s hated father. Who promptly drops dead. Just before Stick’s pal Two Down loses $12,000 to a golf hustler who turns out to be funded by the Russian mob. Which is about the same time that Hoover, Ponky’s worst golfer and the owner of an impressive array of useless golf gadgets purchased with his wife’s money, learns she’ll cut him off if he doesn’t break a hundred in one month. Then a practical joke makes Dannie believe that Stick’s been stepping out with the gorgeous new clubhouse girl, the eye-popping Kelly, and he’s soon living on the forty-year-old couch in the Ponky clubhouse. Luckily, Stick has a solution to all his problems. He’ll qualify for the British Open.
Author : Joseph Smith Harris
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Record of the Smith family descended from John Smith, born 1655 in county Monaghan, Ireland written by Joseph Smith Harris and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1906-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Universal Pictures Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (731 download)
Download or read book The Express written by Universal Pictures Company and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Jones
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0804180865
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book I Lived to Tell It All written by George Jones and published by Dell. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boozing. Womanizing. Brawling. Singing. For the last forty years George Jones has reigned as the country's king--the singer many have called the Frank Sinatra of country. And for most of that time, his career has been marked by hard-living, hard-loving, and hard luck. From his early east Texas recordings through his marriage with Tammy Wynette to his latest acclaim as a solid citizen and "high-tech red-neck," Americans have been fascinated with Jones, never even knowing whether he's going to show up for his next concert. Now, in I Lived To Tell It All, George Jones supplies a no-holds-barred account of his excesses and ecstasies. How alcohol ruled his life and performances. How violence marred many friendships and relationships. How money was something to be made but never held on to. And, finally, how the love of a good woman can ultimately change a man, redeem him, and save his life.
Author : William Thomas Tredway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of the Tredway Family written by William Thomas Tredway and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family, of English origin, first settled in the Connecticut valley in 1636.
Author : Joe Drape
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805088903
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Our Boys written by Joe Drape and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring portrait of the extraordinary high-school football team whose quest for perfection sustains its hometown in the heartland The football team in Smith Center, Kansas, has won sixty-seven games in a row, the nation's longest high-school winning streak. They have done so by embracing a philosophy of life taught by their legendary coach, Roger Barta: "Respect each other, then learn to love each other and together we are champions." But as they embarked on a quest for a fifth consecutive title in the fall of 2008, they faced a potentially destabilizing transition: the greatest senior class in school history had graduated, and Barta was contemplating retirement after three decades on the sidelines. In Smith Center--population: 1,931--this changing of the guard was seismic. Hours removed from the nearest city, the town revolves around "our boys" in a way that goes to the heart of what America's heartland is today. Joe Drape, a Kansas City native and an award-winning sportswriter for The New York Times, moved his family to Smith Center to discover what makes the team and the town an inspiration even to those who live hundreds of miles away. His stories of the coaches, players, and parents reveal a community fighting to hold on to a way of life that is rich in value, even as its economic fortunes decline. Drape's moving portrait of Coach Barta and the impressive young men of Smith Center is sure to take its place among the more memorable American sports stories of recent years.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Cornell Widow written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sharon Gannon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698170113
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Simple Recipes for Joy written by Sharon Gannon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 delicious vegan recipes from the world-renowned founder of the Jivamukti yoga method and the New York City Jivamuktea Café Since 1984, Jivamukti yoga has been synonymous with a new way of living: peacefully, healthfully, and consciously. Jivamukti’s dedicated instructors and message of kindness have inspired a global revolution. In 2006, Sharon Gannon and David Life opened the Jivamuktea Café to complement their yoga school as a living expression of how compassionate spiritual activism can be put to practical use. It, too, was an immediate success. The peaceful ambiance, the camaraderie, and, most of all, the delicious, hearty fare struck a chord with patrons who were thrilled to eliminate meat and dairy from their diet without sacrificing taste. Thousands of customers—including Russell Simmons, award-winning film director Darren Aronofsky, and Eco Spokesmama Chloé Jo Davis—have become devoted fans of Gannon’s cruelty-free burritos, chocolate mousse, and flower salads. Now, for the first time, Gannon presents the secrets behind the café's acclaimed menu—and also showcases her own home cooking, with recipes she’s been making for family and friends for decades. Stalwart vegans—as well as the millions of vegetarians and omnivores who eat vegan part-time for its health and environmental benefits—will embrace Gannon’s accessible, delicious, and spiritually powerful recipes.
Author : Al Barkow
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The History of the PGA Tour written by Al Barkow and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the origins of the PGA tour in 1916 and its development up to the present, highlighting the finest players and notable contests, with statistics for all tournaments through 1988.
