Baseball Junkie

Author : Aubrey Huff
Publisher : Roundtree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781944903176
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball Junkie written by Aubrey Huff and published by Roundtree Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball Junkie is about more than baseball. Why would a two-time World Series champion who has achieved a level of success most men only dream about find himself on his knees, weeping, a loaded .357 Magnum pressed against his temple? Aubrey confronts his demons in Baseball Junkie. The book takes you on a wild roller-coaster ride from his humble beginnings as a quiet, shy kid growing up in a trailer park in a small Texas town, through the brutal murder of his father, to an Adderall-infused egomaniac standing in front of a million-plus Giants fans at the 2010 World Series parade in downtown San Francisco, proudly displaying women's underwear, his "rally thong," for the world to see. As a two-time World Series Champion who reached the pinnacle of Major League Baseball before retiring at age thirty-six in 2012, Aubrey Huff earned a place in Major League Baseball history. Baseball Junkie uses brutal honesty, humor, and first-person narration to draw an intimate portrait of life in the big leagues. Aubrey bares all, taking the reader inside the complex life and mind of a man as he balances victories with the crippling demons of addiction, divorce, anxiety, depression, and feelings of inferiority. It inspires each of us to seek more than what this world has to offer. To rise above mediocrity and achieve our true potential while staying focused on what really matters when the fame and excitement of the game fade with the sunset.

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146162603X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sports Junkie's Book of Trivia, Terms, and Lingo written by Harvey Frommer and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the content of two of Frommer's previous books, Sports Roots and Sports Lingo, this book not only explains how nicknames, namesakes, trophies, competitions, and expressions in the world of sports came to be, but also serves as a useful dictionary of the language of sports-both technical and slang.

Author : Robert Whiting
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729491
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tokyo Junkie written by Robert Whiting and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.

Author : Art Rust
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of a Baseball Junkie written by Art Rust and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Salin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780809226030
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Forgotten Heroes written by Tony Salin and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on such athletes as Art Pennington, Bruno Haas, and Bill Lange, Salin presents the stories of more than a dozen former players, many in his own words. 15 photos.

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589792555
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sports Junkie's Book of Trivia, Terms, and Lingo written by Harvey Frommer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conbining two of Frommer's previous successes, Sports Lingo and Sports Roots, and supplemented with new material, this book will prove to be indispensable to nay sports enthusiast wishing to settle an argument, decipher a mysterious call, or simply persue for his or her enjoyment.

Author : Ron Kaplan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209885
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die written by Ron Kaplan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Larry Hausner
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476650667
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Save Baseball written by Larry Hausner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major League Baseball has been in crisis in recent years. Game attendance is down by millions and fan interest is in free fall. The future of the game is in jeopardy. While the League acknowledges the issues, many are stumped as to how to address them. This book explores in detail the critical challenges facing MLB, and their ramifications, along with some potential solutions. Interviews with baseball insiders, players to executives, give a perspective on baseball's struggle to reinvent itself for future generations.

Author : Chris Herren
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429924144
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basketball Junkie written by Chris Herren and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own words, former NBA and overseas pro Chris Herren tells how he nearly lost everything and everyone he loved, and how he found a way back to life. Powerful, honest, and dramatic, this remarkable memoir,Basketball Junkie, is harrowing in its descent, and heartening in its return. I was dead for thirty seconds. That's what the cop in Fall River told me. When the EMTs found me, there was a needle in my arm and a packet of heroin in the front seat. At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts, junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams on his skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had created their own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, best hope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren was heavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a McDonald's All-American, featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story, and at just seventeen years old became the central figure in Fall River Dreams, an acclaimed book about the 1994 Durfee team's quest for the state championship. Leaving Fall River for college, Herren starred on Jerry Tarkanian's Fresno State Bulldogs team of talented misfits, which included future NBA players as well as future convicted felons. His gritty, tattooed, hip-hop persona drew the ire of rival fans and more national attention: Rolling Stone profiled him, 60 Minutes interviewed him, and the Denver Nuggets drafted him. When the Boston Celtics acquired his contract, he lived the dream of every Massachusetts kid—but off the court Herren was secretly crumbling, as his alcohol and drug use escalated and his life spiraled out of control. Twenty years later, Chris Herren was married to his high-school sweetheart, the father of three young children, and a heroin junkie. His basketball career was over, consumed by addictions; he had no job, no skills, and was a sadly familiar figure to those in Fall River who remembered him as a boy, now prowling the streets he once ruled, looking for a fix. One day, for a time he cannot remember, he would die.

Author : Bill Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Junkies Rejoice! written by Bill Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: