Have Glove Will Travel

Author : Bill Lee,Richard Lally
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307420848

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Have Glove, Will Travel by Bill Lee,Richard Lally Pdf

It was 1982 when Bill Lee was famously booted from the Montreal Expos after he went AWOL in protest of another player’s mistreatment by management. His reputation for antics both on and off the field guaranteed that no other club would pick him up. The Ace from Space had landed on professional baseball’s blacklist, and so it was that one of the most popular major-league pitchers of our day was fated to pack his bags and wander the globe searching for a ball game. Have Glove, Will Travel is the chronicle of an amazing odyssey that began more than twenty years ago and continues today. Unable to live without baseball, Lee went anywhere he could find a game, beginning in the dank and dreary locker room of a Canadian hockey team that later became a softball team. We follow him around the world as he competes in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps, barnstorming like a modern Satchel Paige around the United States, South America, China, Cuba, Russia, and every province in Canada. At the heart of this story are the rollicking, colorful characters Lee meets during his travels, and the mishaps that befall him whether he’s sober or stoned. There’s the eccentric Latin pitching master Lee plays with in Cuba, who once struck out Ernest Hemingway. And a hilarious story that takes place in the backwoods of a British Columbia timber town, where Lee and Hall-of-Famer Ferguson Jenkins go fishing and end up being chased back to their pickup truck by a 450-pound black bear. Have Glove, Will Travel is so much more than the average baseball book. Lee’s humor, keen eye for detail, and extraordinary pitching intellect are always on display, but in the end this book is a love story about a middle-aged maverick who refused to stop pursuing his passion for a boy’s game long after the grown-ups told him he couldn’t play on their team anymore. Readers who loved Lee’s bestselling The Wrong Stuff, also written with Richard Lally, will find the long wait for this rich and wonderful sequel well worth it. Those who haven’t yet encountered the literary Bill Lee have a great treat in store.

Author : Ron Kaplan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803246485

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501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die by Ron Kaplan Pdf

Propounding his “small ball theory” of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that “the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature.” Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable—vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining, and occasionally brilliant. From this bewildering array of baseball books, Ron Kaplan has chosen 501 of the best, making it easier for fans to find just the books to suit them (or to know what they’re missing). From biography, history, fiction, and instruction to books about ballparks, business, and rules, anyone who loves to read about baseball will find in this book a companionable guide, far more fun than a reference work has any right to be.

Author : Bill Lee,Jim Prime
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781617499265

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Baseball Eccentrics by Bill Lee,Jim Prime Pdf

A round up of the most outrageous group of malcontents, characters, rebels, nut jobs, reprobates, wing-nuts, wackos, space cadets, head cases, goofs, free thinkers, and oddballs who ever livened up the grand old game of baseball, this collection not only describes their most bizarre antics in often-hilarious detail, but also includes the unique thoughts of Bill "Spaceman" Lee, a man known for his colorful quotes and offbeat personality.

Author : Bill Lee,Richard Lally
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307422491

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The Wrong Stuff by Bill Lee,Richard Lally Pdf

The return of a sports classic with a new foreword by the author Finally back in print after many years, here is Bill Lee’s classic tale of his renegade life on and off the mound. Whether walking out on the Montreal Expos to protest the release of a valued teammate or telling sportswriters eager for candid and offbeat comments more about the game than his bosses wanted anyone to know, pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee became celebrated as much for his rebellious personality as for his remarkable talent. Add to the mix his affinity for Eastern religions and controversial causes, and you can see why Lee infuriated the establishment while entertaining his legion of fans. In this wildly funny memoir that became a massive bestseller in the United States and Canada when it was first published, Lee recounts the colorful story of his life—from the drugged-out antics of his college days at USC (where he learned that “marijuana never hammered me like a good Camel”) to his post–World Series travels with a group of liberal long-distance runners through Red China (where he discovered that conservatives don’t like marathons because “it’s much easier to climb into a Rolls-Royce”). Lee also describes his minor league days, joining the Reserves during the Vietnam War, his time with the Red Sox, and the 1975 World Series. He spares no detail while recalling his infamous falling-out with Red Sox management that led to his trade to Montreal. Full of irreverent wit, and an inherent love of the game, The Wrong Stuff is a sports classic for a new generation.

Author : Rick Jasper
Publisher : Darby Creek
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781467730594

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Out of Control by Rick Jasper Pdf

Carlos "Trip" Costas is a fiery shortstop with many talents and passions. His father is Julio Costas—yes, the Julio Costas, the famous singer. Unfortunately, Julio is also famous for being loud, controlling, and sometimes violent with Trip. He dreams of seeing his son play in the majors, but that's not what Trip wants. When Trip decides to take a break from baseball to focus on his own music, his father loses his temper. He threatens to stop donating money to the team. Will the Roadrunners survive losing their biggest financial backer and their star shortstop? Will Trip have the courage to follow his dreams, and not his father's?

Author : Bill Lee
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1400054079

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Have Glove, Will Travel by Bill Lee Pdf

Describes how the talented but iconoclastic baseball pitcher found himself blacklisted from professional baseball and his adventures around the world in his quest to play the sport he loved, competing in pickup games, town tournaments, senior leagues, and fantasy camps across the U.S. and Canada, China, Cuba, Russia, and South America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1812 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Welding
ISBN : UOM:39015011953802

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Welding Journal by Anonim Pdf

"Current welding literature" included in each volume.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business and politics
ISBN : NWU:35556035988740

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Newsweek by Anonim Pdf

Author : Evan Meagher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737417219

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Have Bat, Will Travel by Evan Meagher Pdf

How good could you become? If you gave up your job and pursued your passion with a single-minded resolve, what is your absolute ceiling? Could you go pro? Based on his successful blog of the same name, Evan Meagher answers that question in HAVE BAT, WILL TRAVEL. In a charming 'everyman' story reminiscent of George Plimpton's participatory journalism, he quits his job in finance in quixotic effort to determine if he can get paid to play professional baseball anywhere in the world. HAVE BAT, WILL TRAVEL is the true story of a man chasing a dream. What starts as a carefree conversation over a beer in college turns into an all-consuming obsession that brings Evan to Bois-Guillaume, a small town in Normandy, France. A fish out of water, Evan faces political intrigue, cultural misunderstandings, and a bullseye on his back as an expensive American import. On the verge of outgrowing a childhood pastime, Evan creates a humorous narrative that is, at its heart, about fighting Father Time to a draw.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computer music
ISBN : UOM:39015057452891

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Electronic Musician by Anonim Pdf

Author : Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Current events
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123005907

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Time by Briton Hadden,Henry Robinson Luce Pdf

Author : Ruth Chew
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780449815748

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What the Witch Left by Ruth Chew Pdf

"Orginally published in the United States by Scholastic, Inc, New York, in 1973."--Title page verso.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Vermont
ISBN : WISC:89067960120

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Vermont Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mona Awad
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735235892

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Bunny by Mona Awad Pdf

“The Secret History meets Jennifer’s Body. This brilliant, sharp, weird book skewers the heightened rhetoric of obsessive female friendship in a way I don’t think I've ever seen before. I loved it and I couldn’t put it down.” - Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls who seem to move and speak as one. "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more different from the other members of her master's program at New England's elite Warren University. A self-conscious scholarship student who prefers the company of her imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight it seems their bodies might become permanently fused. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' exclusive monthly "Smut Salon," and finds herself drawn as if by magic to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, an audacious art school dropout, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into Bunny world, and starts to take part in the off-campus "Workshop" where they devise their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur, and her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies are brought into deadly collision. A spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole tale about loneliness and belonging, creativity and agency, and female friendship and desire, Bunny is the dazzlingly original second book from an author with tremendous "insight into the often-baffling complexities of being a woman" (The Atlantic).

Author : Myron J. Smith (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Baseball
ISBN : UOM:39015069290123

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The Baseball Bibliography by Myron J. Smith (Jr.) Pdf

"With over 57,000 entries, this two-volume set is the most comprehensive non-electronic, non-database, print bibliography on any American sport. Represented here are books and monographs, scholarly papers, government documents, doctoral dissertations, masters' theses, poetry and fiction, novels, pro team yearbooks, college and professional All-Star Game and World Series programs, commercially produced yearbooks, and periodical and journal articles"--Provided by publisher.