Once A Coach Always A Coach The Life Journey Of Thomas Errol Wasdin

Author : Peter Kerasotis
Publisher : WingSpan Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1595946829

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Once a Coach, Always a Coach: The Life Journey of Thomas Errol Wasdin by Peter Kerasotis Pdf

America held little promise during the 1930's, when the Great Depression vice gripped the country and a boy named Thomas Errol Wasdin was born into the hardscrabble farmland of Waldo, Florida. Wasdin was only months old when his mother died of blood poisoning. Soon afterward, he and his sister were sent to live with their Uncle and Aunt, who raised them with old-fashioned values rooted in discipline and hard work. These became character traits that served Wasdin well - later at the University of Florida and eventually throughout his life. And what a life it has been; rich and varied, and not without heartache and an ongoing, debilitating battle with Trigeminal Neuralgia, which the medical profession chillingly refers to as the Suicide Disease. It is a life that saw Wasdin shape the lives of poor children from literally and proverbially the wrong side of the tracks in Jacksonville, Florida; children who later became attorneys, administrators, sports stars, politicians, educators, husbands, wives, parents and productive citizens. It is a life that saw Wasdin forge friendships with two men he achieved enormous success with - Joe Williams and Rick Stottler. With Williams, Wasdin reached the pinnacle of coaching in college basketball, taking Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA Championship Game against the most powerful program in college sports history - John Wooden's UCLA Bruins. The account of that season, and especially that game, captures the controversy and excitement that surrounded it. Wasdin then moved from an assistant coach to a successful tenure as JU's head coach. It is a life that saw Wasdin leave coaching to join Stottler in business and development, shaping both lives and a stretch of area along the East Coast of Florida that with his help came to be known as the Space Coast. It is a life lived in full, and a life story worth reading.

Author : Peter Kerasotis
Publisher : WingSpan Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1595945245

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Once a Coach, Always a Coach: The Life Journey of Thomas Errol Wasdin by Peter Kerasotis Pdf

America held little promise during the 1930's, when the Great Depression vice gripped the country and a boy named Thomas Errol Wasdin was born into the hardscrabble farmland of Waldo, Florida. Wasdin was only months old when his mother died of blood poisoning. Soon afterward, he and his sister were sent to live with their Uncle and Aunt, who raised them with old-fashioned values rooted in discipline and hard work. These became character traits that served Wasdin well - later at the University of Florida and eventually throughout his life. And what a life it has been; rich and varied, and not without heartache and an ongoing, debilitating battle with Trigeminal Neuralgia, which the medical profession chillingly refers to as the Suicide Disease. It is a life that saw Wasdin shape the lives of poor children from literally and proverbially the wrong side of the tracks in Jacksonville, Florida; children who later became attorneys, administrators, sports stars, politicians, educators, husbands, wives, parents and productive citizens. It is a life that saw Wasdin forge friendships with two men he achieved enormous success with - Joe Williams and Rick Stottler. With Williams, Wasdin reached the pinnacle of coaching in college basketball, taking Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA Championship Game against the most powerful program in college sports history - John Wooden's UCLA Bruins. The account of that season, and especially that game, captures the controversy and excitement that surrounded it. Wasdin then moved from an assistant coach to a successful tenure as JU's head coach. It is a life that saw Wasdin leave coaching to join Stottler in business and development, shaping both lives and a stretch of area along the East Coast of Florida that with his help came to be known as the Space Coast. It is a life lived in full, and a life story worth reading.

Author : Felipe Alou,Peter Kerasotis
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496214041

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Alou by Felipe Alou,Peter Kerasotis Pdf

Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball—and also the first to play in the World Series. In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream to become a doctor, and an improbable turn of events that led to the pro contract. Battling racism in the United States and political turmoil in his home country, Alou persevered, paving the way for his brothers and scores of other Dominicans, including his son Moisés. Alou played seventeen years in the Major Leagues, accumulating more than two thousand hits and two hundred home runs, and then managed for another fourteen years—four with the San Francisco Giants and ten with the Montreal Expos, where he became the winningest manager in franchise history. Alou’s pioneering journey is embedded in the history of baseball, the Dominican Republic, and a remarkable family. Purchase the audio edition.

Author : Richie Adubato,Peter Kerasotis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496223418

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Havin' a Ball by Richie Adubato,Peter Kerasotis Pdf

In Havin' a Ball one of basketball's most colorful characters and storytellers chronicles his life in the game, from high school coach in New Jersey to head coach in both the NBA and the WNBA. Richie Adubato isn't a Hall of Fame name, but he's one of basketball's most beloved coaches, with a lifetime of stories that are humorous and heartfelt, poignant and personal. Adubato's career has crossed paths with many of basketball's most memorable people and events. Starting in the 1960s, he was part of the Jersey Guys, a group of young junior high and high school coaches--including Hubie Brown, Dick Vitale, and Mike Fratello--who all later went on to coach in the NBA. He was hired as Vitale's assistant coach with the Pistons in 1979. Then, three years later, he was hired by Hubie Brown as the Knicks' assistant coach. He would stay in pro basketball for the next twenty-five years, with stints as head coach for the Dallas Mavericks and Orlando Magic and the WNBA's New York Liberty and Washington Mystics. In fact, he is the first coach to have led teams in both leagues to the playoffs. Adubato grew up as an Irish Italian Jersey kid with modest aspirations who went on to experience a fascinating ride in pro basketball. He tells readers how a young Magic team led by Shaquille O'Neal came undone, about his years coaching the Mavericks at a time when the NBA was never more popular, what it was like to coach in the WNBA when the Liberty were outdrawing the Knicks in attendance, and what it was like to coach with, and against, other Hall of Famers. Havin' a Ball takes readers into locker rooms, planes, practices, games, and off court to the inner world of pro basketball with an insider's unique perspective.

Author : Seth Davis
Publisher : Times Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805099416

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Wooden: A Coach's Life by Seth Davis Pdf

A provocative and revelatory new biography of the legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, by one of America's top college basketball writers No college basketball coach has ever dominated the sport like John Wooden. His UCLA teams reached unprecedented heights in the 1960s and '70s capped by a run of ten NCAA championships in twelve seasons and an eighty-eight-game winning streak, records that stand to this day. Wooden also became a renowned motivational speaker and writer, revered for his "Pyramid of Success." Seth Davis of Sports Illustrated and CBS Sports has written the definitive biography of Wooden, an unflinching portrait that draws on archival research and more than two hundred interviews with players, opponents, coaches, and even Wooden himself. Davis shows how hard Wooden strove for success, from his All-American playing days at Purdue through his early years as a high school and college coach to the glory days at UCLA, only to discover that reaching new heights brought new burdens and frustrations. Davis also reveals how at the pinnacle of his career Wooden found himself on questionable ground with alumni, referees, assistants, and even some of his players. His was a life not only of lessons taught, but also of lessons learned. Woven into the story as well are the players who powered Wooden's championship teams – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Walt Hazzard, and others – many of whom speak frankly about their coach. The portrait that emerges from Davis's remarkable biography is of a man in full, whose life story still resonates today.

Author : May Sinclair
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664601780

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The Divine Fire by May Sinclair Pdf

"The Divine Fire" by May Sinclair is a love story, a literary journey and a peek into the world of the book trade from many angles. Savage Keith Rickman is a talented young poet with a classical education and a cockney accent. He wants to be a gentleman yet his less chivalrous ways drive him to drink and have a fascination for a variety actress. Lucia is a beautiful young woman from a wealthy family. Her grandfather's library of rare books is worth more to her than the inheritance she stands to lose. She hires Rickman to catalog its contents.

Author : Peter Kerasotis
Publisher : Globe Pequot Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0762737778

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Stadium Stories by Peter Kerasotis Pdf

A collection of terrific stories about the beloved Gators by a veteran journalist.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 015201697X

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Tam Lin by Jane Yolen Pdf

In this retelling of an old Scottish ballad, a Scottish lass, on the Halloween after her sixteenth birthday, reclaims her family home which has been held for years by the fairies, and at the same time effects the release of Tam Lin, a human held captive by the Queen of the Fey.

Author : Aram Goudsouzian
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374710767

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Down to the Crossroads by Aram Goudsouzian Pdf

In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from Memphis to Jackson, leading a "March Against Fear" that would promote black voter registration and defy the entrenched racism of the region. But on the march's second day, he was shot by a mysterious gunman, a moment captured in a harrowing and now iconic photograph. What followed was one of the central dramas of the civil rights era. With Meredith in the hospital, the leading figures of the civil rights movement flew to Mississippi to carry on his effort. They quickly found themselves confronting southern law enforcement officials, local activists, and one another. In the span of only three weeks, Martin Luther King, Jr., narrowly escaped a vicious mob attack; protesters were teargassed by state police; Lyndon Johnson refused to intervene; and the charismatic young activist Stokely Carmichael first led the chant that would define a new kind of civil rights movement: Black Power. Aram Goudsouzian's Down to the Crossroads is the story of the last great march of the King era, and the first great showdown of the turbulent years that followed. Depicting rural demonstrators' courage and the impassioned debates among movement leaders, Goudsouzian reveals the legacy of an event that would both integrate African Americans into the political system and inspire even bolder protests against it. Full of drama and contemporary resonances, this book is civil rights history at its best.

Author : Courtney Miller Santo
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062130532

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The Roots of the Olive Tree by Courtney Miller Santo Pdf

An extraordinary new voice in contemporary woman’s fiction, Courtney Miller Santo makes her magnificent debut with The Roots of the Olive Tree, a novel that will delight fans of Sarah Blake’s The Postmistress, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and the works of Kristin Hannah. Set in a house on an olive grove in northern California, The Roots of the Olive Tree is a beautiful, touching story that brings to life five generations of women—including an unforgettable 112-year-old matriarch determined to break all Guinness longevity records—the secrets and lies that divide them and the love that ultimately ties them together.

Author : John M. Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743419871

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How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford Pdf

A thrilling Star Trek: The Original Series adventure featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise in a strange battle for dilithium crystals against the Klingons. Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation’s starships...and the Klingon Empire’s battlecruisers. Now on a small, out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever seen has been found. Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, the planet will go to the side best able to develop the planet and its resourses. Each side will contest the prize with the prime of its fleet. For the Federation—Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. For the Klingons—Captain Kaden vestai-Oparai and the Fire Blossom. Only the Direidians are writing their own script for this contest—script that propels the crew of the Starship Enterprise into their strangest adventure yet!

Author : Louis Bromfield
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1606354612

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Pleasant Valley by Louis Bromfield Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3285141

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British Poets by Anonim Pdf

Author : John M. Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780671038533

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The Final Reflection by John M. Ford Pdf

Klingon Capt. Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace when his empire hatches a covert plan to shatter the Federation. Only Krenn can prevent a war--at the risk of his own life!

Author : Louis Bromfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 1888683848

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Malabar Farm by Louis Bromfield Pdf