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Download or read book The Southpaw written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southpaw is a story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings to the top of the game, Henry finds out how hard it is to please his coach, his girl, and the sports page?and himself, too?all at once. Written in Henry?s own words, this exuberant, funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. Although Mark Harris loves and writes tellingly about the pleasures of baseball, his primary subject has always been the human condition and the shifts of mortal men and women as they try to understand and survive what life has dealt them. ø This new Bison Books edition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Southpaw. In his introduction to this edition, Mark Harris discusses the genesis of the novel in his own life experience. Also available in Bison Books editions are The Southpaw, It Looked Like For Ever, and A Ticket for a Seamstitch, the other three volumes in the Henry Wiggen series.
Download or read book Southpaw written by J.D. Kirk and published by Zertex Crime. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iron Southpaw written by Jason Hunt and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating novel revealing humor, wisdom and success as told by the author. This semi-autobiographical novel not only reveals success and misfortunes but also provides comfort and understanding to all those seeking enlightenment and entertainment.
Book Synopsis To Shake the Sleeping Self by : Jedidiah Jenkins
Download or read book To Shake the Sleeping Self written by Jedidiah Jenkins and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the eve of turning thirty, terrified of being sucked into a life he didn't choose, Jedidiah Jenkins quit his dream job and spent the next sixteen months cycling from Oregon to Patagonia. He chronicled the trip on Instagram, where his photos and ... reflections on life soon attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and got him featured by National Geographic and The Paris Review. In this ... memoir, Jed narrates the adventure that started it all: the people and places he encountered on his way to the bottom of the world, and the internal journey that prompted it"--
Book Synopsis The Sensuous Southpaw by : Paul R. Rothweiler
Download or read book The Sensuous Southpaw written by Paul R. Rothweiler and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southpaw written by Rich Wallace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Fleming throws left, hits right and left, and is hoping to become Hudson City’s newest pitcher.Having moved from Pennsylvania, he’s looking forward to making some new friends and playing the sport he loves. But while he makes the team, things don’t go the way he’d hoped. His teammates aren’t too welcoming and his time on the mound is less than stellar. It doesn’t help that his dad is applying more and more pressure to be a star pitcher. Before long, Jimmy is wishing he’d never left Pennsylvania. But Jimmy isn’t one to give up, and just when the season hits a low point, Jimmy’s pitches—and his attitude—begin to find their mark.
Download or read book Becoming Taz written by Jeff Bumpus and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Taz: Writing from the Southpaw Stance by Jeff Bumpus is a memoir about pursuing a dream - of enduring the struggles, processing the failures, and learning how to assess the triumphs. Bumpus was a professional boxer from 1984 until 1993. During this time he continued working full-time as a saw operator, cutting countertops for mobile homes and RVs. He fought five world champions and several top contenders during his career in the ring before retiring with a record of 31 wins (15 by knockout), 8 defeats, and one draw. Becoming Taz is a tale of youth filtered through the wisdom of middle age and told with the literate voice of a seasoned storyteller.
Book Synopsis Southpaw Bruce Cantrell by : Vickie Hodge Holt
Download or read book Southpaw Bruce Cantrell written by Vickie Hodge Holt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leland Bruce Cantrell is a Southpaw. He might have lost a few fights but he won the war. He kept himself in shape, without the use of drugs. He boxed with skills taught by the famous Henry "Pappy" Gault. Both winning boxers lived in Spartanburg South Carolina. Today "Pretty Boy Cantrell" uses all he was taught to mentor young men. He raised four sons and worked at Stoffers in Gaffney and for Westinghouse as a machinist. His dream is to bring a boxing ring to Spartanburg.
Download or read book Southpaw Fly Hawk written by Adolph Regli and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Left Hand Turn Around the World by : David Wolman
Download or read book A Left Hand Turn Around the World written by David Wolman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling from the halls of history to the halls of science, Wolman explores a Scottish castle designed for left-handed swordfights, visits a Paris museum to inspect nineteenth-century brains that hold clues to this biological puzzle, and observes chimps with a primatologist in Atlanta who may help unravel the evolutionary mystery of left-handedness. Along the way, Wolman meets fellow left-handers who share his sense of kinship and reveal the essence of Southpaw. There is sinister Diabolos Rex, follower of the Left Hand Path; and John Evans, an amputee whose left hand was reattached to his right arm. In Japan, Wolman tees off with the National Association of Left-Handed Golfers and seeks wisdom from a left-handed baseball legend. A seamless blend of science, travel, culture, and humor, this inquisitive exploration of all things Southpaw is sure to be the perfect book for lefties and for all the righties who love them.
Book Synopsis The Southpaw from Sonora Mystery by : Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Download or read book The Southpaw from Sonora Mystery written by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1983 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first Bob feels threatened when Matt, new in town and possibly a better left-handed pitcher than himself, joins the Sonora Nuggets, but then the two find themselves involved in the mystery of the missing baseballs.
Download or read book Bang the Drum Slowly written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant portrayal of professional ballplayers' lives on and off the field during the sport's golden years in the 1950's.
Download or read book Nocterra #8 written by Scott Snyder and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2022-03-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “PEDAL TO THE METAL,” Part Two The deadliest hunters in the world become the hunted as the Ferrymen take matters into their own hands, and Blacktop Bill sees the light as these two treacherous journeys lead on.
Book Synopsis Everything Is Cinema by : Richard Brody
Download or read book Everything Is Cinema written by Richard Brody and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Jean-Luc Godard, exemplary director of the French New Wave, wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Among the greatest cinematic innovations, Godard's films shift fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. Similarly, his persona projects shifting images - cultural hero, impassioned loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a - if not the - key influence, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable." "In Everything is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and collaborators to demystify the elusive director and paint the fullest picture yet of his life and work. Paying as much attention to Godard's revolutionary technical inventions as to the political and emotional forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director's early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless and Contempt, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy, conservative family, his fluid and often disturbing politics, his tumultuous dealings with fellow filmmakers, and his troubled relations with women."--Jacket.
Download or read book Vineland Reread written by Peter Coviello and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon’s return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity’s Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked Vineland opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history. Beginning with his early besotted encounters with Vineland, Coviello reads Pynchon’s offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction. Offering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that Vineland is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon’s harmonizing of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present.
Book Synopsis Wee Willie Sherdel by : John G. Coulson
Download or read book Wee Willie Sherdel written by John G. Coulson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wee Willie Sherdel was a very humble, courageous left-handed pitcher who became one of the all-time great southpaws in St. Louis Cardinals history. The son of a German blacksmith in a small Pennsylvania village, Willie’s dream was to become a major league pitcher – a rather big dream for a small boy. Not the most talented or biggest, he worked hard and learned from greats like Eddie Plank, Branch Rickey and Grover Cleveland Alexander. Sherdel’s best years were in the 1920s while Rickey was developing the farm system concept and the Cards were playing in two World Series. Known for his slow ball, Willie was given the honor of pitching the first game against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the powerful Yankees in both Series. Although labeled a hard-luck pitcher in the Series, Sherdel performed many great feats on the diamond. Since his retirement in 1932, he remains the Redbirds’ winningest left-hander and fourth all-time winner. Willie also has pitched the third-most games and the fourth-most innings. Like all pitchers, he loved to talk about his hitting. Among Cardinals’ pitchers, Sherdel owns the fourth-most career home runs and the fifth-best batting average for his .337 in 1923. His contemporaries included over 90 Hall of Famers and some of the greatest players of all-time including Ruth, Gehrig, Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby.
Download or read book Northwind written by J.D. Kirk and published by Zertex Crime. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
