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Only by God's Grace

Only by God's Grace ab 8.99 € als epub eBook: A lost boy's story of success against the odds from homeless and hungry to throwing out the first pitch at an MLB Astros game. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Religion,

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Mookie: Life, Baseball, and the '86 Mets , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 453min

They said it was the "Curse of the Bambino". They said "the bad guys won". Now one of baseball’s all-time good guys, New York Mets legend Mookie Wilson, tells his side of the story - from the ground ball through Bill Buckner’s legs that capped the miraculous 1986 World Series Game Six rally against the Boston Red Sox to the rise and fall of a team that boasted such outsize personalities as Darryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Lenny Dykstra, and Davey Johnson. Growing up in rural South Carolina in the 1960s, Mookie took to heart the lessons of his father, a diligent sharecropper who believed in the abiding power of faith - and taught his son the game that would change his life. When Mookie landed in Shea Stadium in 1980, the Mets were a perennial cellar-dweller overshadowed by the crosstown Yankees. But inspired by Mookie’s legendary hustle, they would soon become the toast of New York. And even when their off-field antics - made famous by a contingency of the team called "the Scum Bunch" - eclipsed their on-field successes, Mookie stayed above the fray. In 1986, the Mets were a juggernaut, winning 108 games during the regular season and edging the Houston Astros for the National League pennant following a grueling 16-inning Game Six classic. In the World Series against Boston, in an epic at-bat that led to the Buckner error, Mookie would ignite a fire under the Mets, helping to force a Game Seven. New York would win to become World Champions. In an era when role models in sports were hard to come by, some tarnished by their own hubris and greed, Mookie Wilson remained the exception: a man of humility and honor when it mattered the most. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ruffin Prentiss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002352/bk_peng_002352_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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1980 in baseball

1980 in baseball ab 16.49 € als Taschenbuch: 1980 International League season 1980 Major League Baseball season 1980 Toronto Blue Jays season 1980 Philadelphia Phillies season 1980 World Series 1980 Houston Astros season 1980 Kansas City Royals season. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,

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Ball Four: The Final Pitch , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1119min

Ball Four: The Final Pitch is the original book plus all the updates, unlike the 20th Anniversary Edition paperback. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold and a “social leper” for having violated the “sanctity of the clubhouse.” Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn’t true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn’t read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four. Fans liked discovering that athletes were real people--often wildly funny people. Many readers said it gave them strength to get through a difficult period in their lives. Serious critics called it an important document. David Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer for his reporting on Vietnam, wrote a piece in Harper’s that said of Bouton: “He has written… a book deep in the American vein, so deep in fact that it is by no means a sports book.” In 1999 Ball Four was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the “Books of the Century.” And Time magazine chose it as one of the "100 Greatest Non-Fiction" books. Besides changing the image of athletes, the book played a role in the economic revolution in pro sports. In 1975, Ball Four was accepted as legal evidence against the owners at the arbitration hearing, which lead to free agency in baseball and, by extension, to other sports. Today Ball Four has taken on another role--as a time capsule of life in the 60s. "It is not just a diary of Bouton's 1969 season with the Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros," says sportswriter Jim Caple. "It's a vibrant, funny, telling history of an era that seems even further away than four decades. To call it simply a "tell all book" is like describing The Grapes of Wrath as a book about harvesting peaches in California." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Bouton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/004099/bk_adbl_004099_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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History of Major League Baseball by team

History of Major League Baseball by team ab 33.49 € als Taschenbuch: History of the Boston Red Sox History of the Houston Astros History of the New York Yankees History of the New York Mets Chicago Cubs franchise history History of the San Francisco Giants History of the St. Louis Cardinals. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Ratgeber,

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