Cubs To Bonanzas

Author : Richard A. Komm
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483650391
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cubs to Bonanzas written by Richard A. Komm and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about one man's lifelong passion and commitment to flight, starting as a teenager and detailing the intense process of learning to fly in Piper Cubs, then sharing the many experiences of flight with its joys and sorrows as experienced by the author over a sixty-five year span. It describes the investment in time, money, and exposure to the risks associated with flight to many destinations, including Alaska, Mexico and Florida Keys, Nova Scotia and witnessing the entire United States unfold through journeys between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, the Gulf of Mexico, Canada and beyond. This book also chronicles the struggles to provide the time, money, and personal involvement needed to produce the groundwork necessary to complete this mission. Included are the many changes in the social framework that forms a backdrop to these manifold experiences.

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Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1950-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas C. Selig
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625850883
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Chicago Airfields written by Nicholas C. Selig and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Selig excavates the highways to the sky that have been covered up by urban sprawl or dissolved by neglect. More than a guide to landing strips that have had startling second lives as shopping malls or retirement homes, he uncovers the excitement of the early days of air travel, when a man might cling to his job as a lavatory truck driver for a closer peek at aviation. In this follow-up to "Lost Airports of Chicago," discover how a tractor swap gave birth to Clow International Airport and revel in the daredevil exploits of puddle-jumper pilots over the wide-open spaces of Harlem Avenue.

Author : Robert Muldoon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450281060
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brass Bonanza Plays Again written by Robert Muldoon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a major league pro sports team leaves a city? The Hartford Whalers left on April 13, 1997leaving behind devastated fans. The players left, tooexcept one who stayed and suffered like the fans. Tiger Burns is an unlikely heroeven for a hobbit-sized, smash-faced, hockey goon with 600 fights. Standing 53, with one-eye, cauliflower ears, and a full-rigged ship tattoo on his chest, his most unusual feature is this: he loves Hartford and its team, the Whalers. In a league where players date super models, ice princesses and Miss Americas, he is a misfit. But in a league of Los Angeles, New York and Boston so is Hartford. Brass Bonanza Plays Again tells the riches-to-rags story of Mark Twains hometown, once the nations richest, now the butt of jokes. It relates the true saga of a small citys beloved team moved away, like Brooklyns Dodgers. And it weaves the tragicomic tale of the muscle-bound gnome who blows the jump-the-shark game against arch-rival Boston on April 11, 1990, lives homeless under a bridge, only to rise up and lead a dead team, out of the stands onto the ice. Tiger rallies not only a dead hockey team, but awakens the ghosts of Hartfords past. He brings to life a ragtag band of 19th century legends and is saved by a guardian angel Rube Waddell, one of sports goats from the 1905 World Series. Can a one-eyed, homeless underdog make a faded city believe and rescue a star-crossed spirit? In Brass Bonanza Plays Again, we have Rocky (on Skates!) meets Field of Dreams. Rocky came out of a Philly row house, Rudy out of an Indiana steel mill, and now Tiger Burns comes out from under a Hartford bridge to bring a dead team to life. A book of provincial aspirations and condescension, Brass Bonanza Plays Again tells the story of this small city, midway between New York and Boston, long considered just a urine-stop or ass-wipe between Wall Street and Cape Cod. The New York Times recently printed an essay In Search of the Great American Hockey Novel lamenting that hockey, unlike other sports, has yet to be celebrated in a notable work. Where is the Chekhov of the Chicago Blackhawks? the Times asks. Who is the Stendahl of the stick to the groin? To that, we humbly say: read on.

Author : Lewis J. Poteet
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475987226
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Push Me Pull You written by Lewis J. Poteet and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, evocative, authoritative dictionary of words from the world community of flight, this book expresses the machismo, the terror, the care for technical excellence, struggles over the power of naming between PR for manufacturers and others, reporters, flight crews, ramp rats, PAX, cabin attendants. The exhilaration of a blue on blue flying day, the horror of a ground loop that goes bad, or a torque stall. Pilots, at the center, are extreme individualists in an activity that depends on teamwork mechanics, weather forecasters, air traffic controllers, computer experts, schedulers and trackers, dispatchers, ground crew. The stress produces variations in speaking that range from technical words to vivid slang exclamations (see Jesus nut). Sources include people from all the levels listed above, some aviation and space writers, Gulf War veterans, and required on-site research at air shows in Le Bourget, Farnsborough, Berlin, Ottawa, Abbotsford, and in Dayton, Pensacola (FL), CFB St. Hubert (Qc.), Dallas-Fort Worth, Renton (WA), Wichita (KS), Montreal, and at such WWII bases as Elvington, near York, England. The section on the names of aircraft includes both official names and the folk names given by those who actually had to fly or ride in them. I am amazed at how you have covered up all the profanity and kept such a clean book. You have made [this] look like a respectable language! Bill Robinson, Public Relations

Author : Bob Logan
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1596700335
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Tales from the Cubs Dugout written by Bob Logan and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This humorous and revealing title lets readers bite off a huge chunk of tasty Cubs? fun, fantasy, heartbreak, and happiness during unforgettable afternoons in the sun, rain, wind, and fog that make every inning an adventure at Wrigley Field. It's written in the sprightly style of Bob Logan, who covered baseball for 32 years as a sportswriter for the Chicago Tribune and the Daily Herald. All of the tales add up to an entertaining slice of Cubs lore in every chapter, full of enjoyable facts, and well remembered characters.

Author : Bob Logan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1613214987
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amazing Tales from the Chicago Cubs Dugout written by Bob Logan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing Stories From the Cubs Dugout is crammed with stories, quotes, and anecdotes about the greatest Cubs players of past and present. The story of the Cubs is part legend, part pathos; heroic and, on occasion, hilarious. Enjoy the heartbreak and joy of unforgettable afternoons at Wrigley Field. Without a doubt Amazing Stories From the Cubs Dugout is a must for any Chicago Cubs fan.

Author : Steve Johnson
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9780760332467
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago Cubs Yesterday & Today written by Steve Johnson and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairing historical black-and-white images with contemporary photographs, this book is a lavish celebration of the Chicago Cubs. It highlights the ballparks and fans, the players and teams, the broadcasters and behind-the-scenes figures who have defined Chicago baseball for more than a century.

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Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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