Sports & Recreation - General

With an introduction that explains what half-pipes are and why they are so popular, this book is the first step towards doing a wide variety of tricks of varying difficulty. Easy-to-understand instructions and step-by-step photos of professionals along with a conversational tone will make...

The tale of a man who made a lifetime contribution to the all American game. How he touched the lives of thousands of young men and friends in their words and memories from high school baseball through the major leagues.The Biography of my dad,...

Those were the days, my friends ... so grab a hot dog and an egg cream, and travel back in time to learn how Babe Ruth won a farting contest, how the first chest protector almost killed Wilbert Robinson, how Leo Durocher rescued the...

"Thrill rides are becoming kill rides." From design flaws to cover-ups when deadly accidents occur, the squeaky-clean image of theme parks is plagued with circumstances park officials and ride manufacturers prefer the general public not be informed of. Theme Park Safety Failure$ sheds a...

Any resemblance of the hardscrabble Southern Illinois community of Granite City, with its teeming, carbon-belching steel mills, to Heaven, is purely coincidental. But it looked like the Pearlie Gates to the Hungarian, Armenian, Yugoslavian and Macedonian immigrants, who left behind genocide and oppression, intent...

Any resemblance of the hardscrabble Southern Illinois community of Granite City, with its teeming, carbon-belching steel mills, to Heaven, is purely coincidental. But it looked like the Pearlie Gates to the Hungarian, Armenian, Yugoslavian and Macedonian immigrants, who left behind genocide and oppression, intent...

Have you noticed that youth sports just don't seem to be much fun anymore? In fact, if you've watched the news lately, they can be downright depressing-coaches going ballistic, parents fighting with each other, fans chanting obscenities, and our kids caught in the middle...

Media and the Coming Out of Gay Male Athletes in American Team Sports is the first of its kind, building upon the narratives of athletes and how their coming out experiences are shaped, transmitted and received through pervasive, powerful, albeit imperfect commercial media.Author: Lawrence...

This book was written to provide coaches some tools to be successful securing the win during those last moments of a tight game. It is a play book that will provide last seconds basketball plays, tactics and strategies to help you win the close...

This book creates a fun way to explore moments in your child's basketball career. Offering diverse characters, creative ideas, captivating story line, unique delivery of message, provides ways to enhance learning and communication among adult and child, providing well thought-out discussion questions regarding book...

Freddie Fitzsimmons was among baseball's top pitchers during his 19-year career with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers. Famed for his knuckleball, Fitz also had the reputation as the game's best fielding pitcher. Fitzsimmons was both a fierce competitor and one of the...

This book is an exciting autobiography about Randy's gripping skydiving career that began in the '60s. His adventure started where Charles Lindbergh made his first three jumps. Inspired by a Medal of Honor recipient, Randy joined Special Forces and trained as a combat medic....

Views A-Foot: Europe Seen With Knapsack and StaffAuthor: Bayard TaylorISBN-10: 1490346929ISBN-13: 9781490346922Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2013Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d

There's no one in Rhode Island who has covered as many sporting events in as many places as Paul Kenyon. Over his fifty-year career as a journalist (including thirty-seven years at The Providence Journal), he covered the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots,...

There's no one in Rhode Island who has covered as many sporting events in as many places as Paul Kenyon. Over his fifty-year career as a journalist (including thirty-seven years at The Providence Journal), he covered the Boston Red Sox, the New England Patriots,...

Although life presents all of us with obstacles and challenges to becoming the best we can be and reaching our full potential, we can use these trials as opportunities to grow. For Kevin Donley, the experience of almost losing it all-even his own life-would...

This book is about 58 wonderful years of family camping in the inspirational Adirondacks. It exposes the pleasures of one of New York's great campgrounds.Author: Edward Jr. LarkinISBN-10: 1483400514ISBN-13: 9781483400518Publisher: Lulu Publishing ServicesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2013Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d

This book is about how football was played in ancient times and worlds, from Australia and South America to China and Europe. It tells the story of how towns and parishes competed against each other. During the Industrial Revolution football moved from the streets...

Four decades of hilarious, and yet at times poignant, outdoor stories by Sam Venable, the award-winning humor columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel.Author: Sam VenableISBN-10: 1482626802ISBN-13: 9781482626803Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2013Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.61d

As a coach, you have a lot of things on your mind, from game-planning to managing the diverse set of personalities on your roster. But no matter which sport you're coaching, there's an important element of the game you shouldn't overlook: your team's uniform....

The author, Ann Boudart, cumulates years of experience in yoga and in horse riding as she started to ride at the age of five. It is only but natural she fuses both disciplines whatever the circumstances, when grooming the horses, when giving lessons. The...

Sports psychiatry uses psychological, neuroscientific, and medical knowledge to address optimal performance and the well-being of athletes. The "mental game" refers not only to a mind that has been conditioned through mental skills training for optimal performance, but also to a broader mindset that...

The New England Small College Athletic Conference has won glowing appraisals in the sporting press since its founding in 1971. Established to strengthen intercollegiate sports in harmony with the high academic standards of its members--11 prestigious liberal arts colleges--the NESCAC is committed to equity...

Have you ever wanted to be a sports coach? Are you an athlete who wants to pass the benefits of your knowledge onto others? Have you ever wanted to start your own sports team or club? Do you want to improve physically in your...

It's the simplification of The Golf Swing that constitutes the chief claim of this vintage little work to a place on the 21st century golfer's bookshelf still. The complexity of the golf swing has arisen largely as the result of the imperfect appreciation of...

Before there was Tony Hawk skateboarding in empty swimming pools there was Robbie Slater screaming down the Cheyenne Frontier Days arena ramps and launching himself on his old green Schwinn. Before there was Fear Factor contestants climbing scaffolding with safety lines and eating worms...

"Jimmy Lee was the best shooter from 15-feet I have ever seen. If he got his shot, he made it. Early, middle, or late in games - it did not matter when. Jimmy had great fundamentals, he worked hard and he shot the ball...

Jack Hampton, Jr., or "Little Jack" as his mother called him, was your typical big, stocky Midwestern 9-year-old boy from Strongsville, Ohio. However, when it came to sports, Little Jack was anything but typical. Where most boys played a sport or two, Little Jack...

Diving is an exciting sport as well as a requirement of some vocations such as commercial diving, military diving, public safety diving, and scientific diving. In sport diving, most learn to dive with a half mask to cover their eyes and nose. A second...

Diving is an exciting sport as well as a requirement of some vocations such as commercial diving, military diving, public safety diving, and scientific diving. In sport diving, most learn to dive with a half mask to cover their eyes and nose. A second...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

As the title suggests this series of volumes covers all areas of Martial Arts training, concepts and philosophies. To become proficient you must train in all ranges of combat, long range, medium range, close range and on the ground! Unarmed and weapons are covered...

The title of this book comes from an online insult. This book was first published in 2006 by Dojo Press & contains the original material as well as, dealing with criminal tactics, counter tactics for multiple opponents, improvised street weapons, an expanded catalog of...

Raven Calling Issue Three. Special Issue dedicated to Southeast Asian Martial ArtsAuthor: Fernan VargasISBN-10: 1365947149ISBN-13: 9781365947148Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2017Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d

In this book Rockhound: A Geography of Collecting you will be shown Ontario's incredible history of mineral extraction and as you will see, rockhounds follow in the signature that every industry left. The full Rockhound series tells you how and where to find crystals,...

Concealed Carry book keyed to Illinois Concealed Carry License classes. The book combines learning to live in a heightened state of awareness along with movement in the critical moments leading up to deadly force encounters to increase survivability. Chapters cover Action Plans for immediate...

Words are powerful And Coach Don Powers has a magical way of using words to help the people he cares about. As you read the "50 Powerisms", inside this book, you will laugh, scratch your head and find yourself sharing them because of the...

The 36 Stratagems reinterpreted from large scale warfare to one on one application for the martial artist. The book also includes philosophical discussion of the stratagems for self-cultivation and personal interactions.Author: Neil RipskiISBN-10: 1365129411ISBN-13: 9781365129414Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2016Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

A complete 'How to' guide to martial arts kicking mastery by world's fastest kicker Tony Higo. Covering warm ups, cool downs, stretches, exercises and drills to build your kicks into an unstoppable force by the acknowledged master of kicking - Tony Higo.Author: Tony HigoISBN-10:...

In the preface to Rushing to Sunset, the author says, "This isn't a book about aging, but it could be. I'm anxious about the aging thing . . . My fear is feeling and acting old . . ." She goes on to describe...

"Who do you think you are, coming in here? No one wants you here " These words were screamed by Dave "Tiger" Williams as he stood inches from cub reporter Cynthia Lambert. It was one of the first things said by a professional athlete...

This is the ultimate book for beginners and intermediate tennis players. It combines text and photos with videos (available in ebook --if connected to Internet. For print book readers, they must merely type the link into the address bar of their browser) It has...

Lyn Watner redefines philanthropy, making it a part of community life. She grew up not knowing that there were things a woman wouldn't do and became the first female pro sports agent. She takes that approach to everything she does and now focuses her...

A guide to enhance the physical education practical experience from a theory stand point while integrating the skills taught in the classroom.Author: Cedricka S. RolleISBN-10: 1502342596ISBN-13: 9781502342591Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2014Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.29d

Author: John OramISBN-10: 1499087284ISBN-13: 9781499087284Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2014Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: William MalliosISBN-10: 1499042736ISBN-13: 9781499042733Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2014Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34dReview Citation(s): BlueInk Review 08/14/2014

Hero's Loop is a book about the fun and adventure of boating. It begins with circumstances that lead a young boy to love and own boats. His love for boats influences him as an adult to work on old boats as a hobby and...

Spencer Jean bares his soul throughout his autobiography, explaining the never-before-told details of the suffering concussions have inflicted upon his life. He explains his first and last concussions, and everything in between. The events that take place throughout the book are explicit and have...

Sophie Brooks presents life as a softball player in a way that only a young, naive, eight-year-old can do. Written entirely from her perspective, this humorous and heartwarming story spans ones tumultuous week between two Saturday games. Sophie must deal with defeat as a...