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The Winner (The Gymnasts #4)
by Elizabeth A. LevyDarlene has to prove she's a winner, since her father is a famous person, a football player for the Denver Broncos.
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
by Jose CansecoA star of Major League Baseball tells the story of wide-spread use of steroids throughout the sport.
Nate the Great and the Stolen Base
by Marjorie Weinman SharmatRosamund's baseball team has a very unusual second base--Oliver's gloopy purple plastic octopus. But one morning . . . it's gone! "Somebody stole second base," Rosamond tells teammate Nate the Great. With the help of his dog, Sludge, the young detective trails the missing octopus, picking up clues along the way. It's not easy to track down a stolen base, and Nate's hunt leads him to some strange places before he finds himself up at bat once more.
Rookies: Squeeze Play
by Mark Freeman"Clutch Hitter! It was the bottom of the eighth, the Elmira Sox down 3-0 to the St. Catherines Blue Jays. With two outs and the bases loaded, the Sox dugout was alive, screaming for a rally. "Now batting for the Sox . . . David Green!" the PA. announced. David dug in at the .plate and waited. The pitcher went into his stretch and fired low and away. Ball one. The next pitch was wildly high, forcing the catcher to reach over his head to grab it. Ball two. "They're gonna walk him with the bases loaded and give us a token run," gasped the Elmira coach, "rather than risk a grand slam!" David saw the next pitch coming, a waist-high fastball almost a foot off the outside corner of the plate. For anyone else it would be another ball. But it looked good enough to David. He went into his power swing and connected with a solid crack!"
A Tiger's Walk: The memoirs of an Auburn Football Player
by Rob Pate"I guess I've always known that college football was the livelihood of this state. I think everyone who grows up in the state of Alabama knows and appreciates the tradition and pageantry that comes with football, in particular college football at Auburn University and the University of Alabama. Since I was five, football has been a way of life for me. In this state, the ultimate goal and dream of just about every little boy is to wear the orange and blue of Auburn or the crimson and white of Alabama. For four years I lived that dream as an Auburn Tiger. I was a four-year defensive starter who played at Auburn in the midst of a tremendous storm of controversy as well as unparalleled success. I played on two teams that represented the western side of the conference in Atlanta as champions, and I played on two teams that had miserable losing seasons."
Willie Mays Young Superstar (History Makers)
by Louis Sabin"Baseball history is filled with the names of great athletes and champions. But nobody ever played the game with more joy, style, and natural ability than Willie Mays. He was a fan's dream come true." This is an interesting and easy to read biography. Picture descriptions greatly add to this book's enjoyment. This would be a fine book for a book report.
Miss Nelson Has A Field Day
by Harry AllardFrom the Book Jacket: The football team hasn't won a game all year. They haven't even scored a single point. They practice only when they feel like it, and neither Principal Blandsworth's admonition nor Coach Armstrong's heart-rending sobs spur them on. Something has to be done. On a certain day when no one wants to practice, the coach's whistle blows, and the team cannot believe what they see: It's that substitute teacher from times past, the terrible tyrant from Miss Nelson's Room 207. The team knows they're in for it when she shouts for all to hear, "I am Coach Swamp." The surprise twist to Miss Swamp's outrageous and rollicking story will delight and mystify the multitude of fans that Harry Allard and James Marshall have won with Miss Nelson Is Missing! and Miss Nelson Is Back. Harry Allard and James Marshall have teamed up before to create the wonderful adventures of the Stupid family in The Stupids Step Out, The Stupids Have a Ball, and The Stupids Die. And, of course, they are the creators of the famous Miss Nelson Is Missing!, which has won the Arizona Young Readers Award, the Georgia Children's Picture Storybook Award, and the California Young Reader Medal. Miss Nelson Is Back, the rollicking sequel, is a featured selection on the PBS television series "Reading Rainbow." Other books about Miss Nelson are available from Bookshare.
The Karate Kid Part III
by B. B. HillerWhen Daniel and his karate teacher return to California, they find that Daniel's old enemies from the Cobra Kai dojo are waiting for him.
Sociology of North American Sport
by Stanley EitzenExploration of North American sporting rituals through the lens of sociology.
Where Else Would You Rather Be?
by Marv LevyThis autobiography of the former football coach describes his boyhood in South Chicago, his military and college careers, and his long football coaching career at all levels from high school to the professional ranks. Marv Levy is probably best known for leading the Buffalo Bills to four straight Super Bowl losses. However, despite this setback, he joined the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001.
Clicker Fun: Dog Tricks and Games Using Positive Reinforcement
by Deborah JonesThis book introduces the basics of Clicker training and Operant Conditioning, and introduces a variety of games and tricks, that you can do as a beginning trainer, or in a dog training class you teach as a professional. The book also includes information on costumes, desensitization, and offers a course outline for a "Clicks and Tricks" course.
Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #4)
by Debbie Dadey Marcia Thornton JonesThe visiting teacher, was short, dressed in a red jump suit, and carrying a small pouch of gems on his waist. And he was not quite right. The kids at Bailey School think he might be a Leprechaun. And why does Mrs. Jeepers dislike the leprechauns so much. Can the kids solve this mystery in time?
Physiology of Sport and Exercise
by Jack H. Wilmore David L. CostillHow does your body respond to the high physiological demands of physical activity/
Fat City
by Leonard GardnerA fighter's dressing room in a seedy arena, lovemaking on a river levee, a back-breaking day of farm labor - Gardner lays his people's lives open to the bone.
The Physics of Baseball
by Robert K. AdairScads of interesting facts about baseball as well as the physical laws of the game.
Mummies Don't Coach Softball (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #21)
by Debbie Dadey Marcia Thornton JonesThere are some pretty weird grownups living in Bailey City. But could the clumsy new softball coach who keeps wrapping up his injuries in bandages really be a mummy? The Bailey School kids are going to find out! Howie shook his head. "Coach Tuttle is clumsy, all right, but he is a normal man." "Yeah," Eddie agreed. "Mummies are dead guys wrapped in toilet paper. Coach Tuttle is definitely alive." "Maybe you're right," Melody said. "After all, mummies don't coach softball." Howie pulled on his softball glove. "Think about it, Liza. What would a mummy be doing in Bailey City?" "I have thought about it," Liza told them. "And I think I know the answer."
Cyclops Doesn't Roller Skate (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #22)
by Debbie Dadey Marcia Thornton JonesThere are some pretty weird grownups living in Bailey City. But could the doctor who has come to check everyone's eyes really be a Cyclops, a giant with just one eye in the middle of his forehead? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out.1 "I don't think a Cyclops would come all the way to Bailey City just to check our eyes." Howie said. Melody nodded. "And a Cyclops definitely doesn't roller-skate," she told Liza. "Liza's been watching a few too many movies," Eddie suggested. "The TV has warped her mind." Liza folded her arms in front of her. "You can tease me all you want, but I think Dr. Polly is a Cyclops. And I'm going to prove it."
Lesson Plans for Dynamic Physical Education for Elementary School Children
by Robert P. PangraziThree complete sets of lesson plans are included to cover three major developmental levels.
Down the Mississippi with Stinky: Two Women, a Canoe, and a Kitten
by Dorie BrunnerThe true adventures of a trip down the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to New Orleans in 1960.
Season of Life: a Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood
by Jeffrey MarxJoe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Jeffrey Marx, who was a ballboy for the Colts when he first met Ehrmann. Ehrmann now devotes his life to teaching young men a whole new meaning of Masculinity. He teaches the boys at Gilman the precepts of his Building Men for Others program: Being a man means emphasizing relationships and having a cause bigger than yourself. It means accepting responsibility and leading courageously. It means that empathy, integrity, and living a life of service to others are more important than points on a Scoreboard. Decades after he first met Ehrmann, Jeffrey Marx renewed their friendship and watched his childhood hero putting his principles into action. While chronicling a season with the Gilman Greyhounds, Marx witnessed the most extraordinary sports program he'd ever seen, where players say "I love you" to each other and coaches profess their love for their players. Off the field Marx sat with Ehrmann and absorbed life lessons that led him to reexamime his own unresolved relationship with his father. Season of Life is a book about what it means to be a man of substance and impact. It is a moving story that will resonate with athletes, coaches, parents--anyone struggling to make the right choices in life.
My Baseball Book
by Gail GibbonsA beginners guide to the game of baseball from the description of the field, to the playing positions, and rules. A game run through by imaginary teams of the Owls and Robins. A helpful glossary of terms is found at the end of the book. A good deal of the text is descriptive of drawings in the book.
The Southpaw
by Mark Jonathan HarrisA story of coming in age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet threee, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a righthanded world. From 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.
Riding to Win (Pine Hollow #9)
by Bonnie BryantThe Saddle Club girls, now in high school, continue having adventures.
Praying for Gil Hodges
by Thomas OliphantFrom the BOOK JACKET -- PRAYING FOR GIL HODGES is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, which has always been on the short list of great moments in baseball history. On a sunny, breezy October afternoon, something happened in New York City that had never happened before and never would again: the Brooklyn Dodgers won the world championship of baseball. For one hour and forty-four minutes, behind a gutsy, twenty-three-year-old kid named Johnny Podres, a left-hander from the iron-mining region of upstate New York, everything that had gone wrong before went gloriously right for a change. Until that afternoon, leaving out the war years, the Dodgers and their legions of fans had endured ten seasons during which they lost the World Series to the New York Yankees five times lost the National League pennant on the final day of the season three times-facts of history that give the famous cry of "Wait Till Next Year!" its defiant meaning. Pitch by pitch and inning by inning, Thomas Oliphant re-creates a relentless melodrama that shows this final game in its true glory. As we move through the game, he builds a remarkable history of the hapless "Burns," exploring the Dodgers' status as a national team, based on their fabled history of near-triumphs and disasters that made them classic underdogs. He weaves into this brilliant recounting a winning memoir of his own family's story and their time together on that fateful day that the final game was played. And it also thrilled a nine-year-old boy on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who was raised in a loving, struggling family for whom the Dodgers were a rare source of the joys and symbols that bring families together through tough times. Every once in a while a book provides a certain view of America, and whether it is The Greatest Generation, Big Russ & Me, or Wait Till Next Year, these works strike a chord with readers everywhere. Praying for Gil Hodges is such a book. Written with power and clarity, this is a brilliant work capturing the majesty of baseball, the issue of race in America, and the love that one young boy, his parents, and the borough of Brooklyn had for their team.