Category: Baseball

By Michael Anderson (editor)

By Stephanie Bedwell Grime

By Ellis Henican, Dwight Gooden

A bruisingly sincere memoir of dependancy and restoration from one of many maximum pitchers of all time.
With clean and sober eyes, Dwight Gooden stocks the main intimate moments of his successes and screw ups, from unending self-destructive drug binges to 3 international sequence jewelry. identified for his triumphs at the baseball box and his excesses off of it, Gooden was once a soft-spoken, dominating wunderkind who tallied a mountain of strikeouts whereas top the 1986 bad-boy ny Mets to an international sequence win. Even at that top, Gooden had already succumbed to a cocaine dependancy that might short-circuit his occupation and private lifestyles. 　

Gooden’s tale transcends baseball, from his early life in Tampa raised by way of a father who was once an alcoholic womanizer, to the new adventure of overcoming his personal demons at the convey Celebrity Rehab. alongside the best way, Gooden deals a distinct standpoint on Yankees proprietor and stalwart supporter George Steinbrenner and a few of the best baseball gamers of all time. Doc is the definitive examine a lifestyles equivalent elements inspiring and heartbreaking.

By Wendell Kim

Utilizing the drills and different principles and proposals during this ebook might be useful youths to have a greater knowing and appreciation of baseball and may lead them to comprehend much more why they acquired successful or why they have been struck out. Contents: the fundamentals -- Baseball is a smart video game; apparatus -- What apparatus is required; Making your individual apparatus; guideline -- operating a profitable Baseball perform; Hitting; Pitching; Catching; Fielding; Baserunning; Sliding; indicators; video game Day; Scorekeeping.

By Michael Sokolove

The 12 months was once 1979 and the fifteen kids at the Crenshaw excessive Cougars have been the main gifted crew within the heritage of highschool baseball. many of the crew have been drafted into expert baseball. of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, could reunite as teammates on a countrywide League All-Star roster. yet Michael Sokolove's The price ticket Out is extra a narrative of promise denied than of goals fulfilled.