Opening Day

Download or read book Opening Day written by Jonathan Eig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the 1947 baseball season during which Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier is a sixtieth anniversary tribute based on interviews with Robinson's wife, daughter, and teammates.

Download or read book Opening Days written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique collection of sports poems by a first-string team of beloved poets, the vitality of the language and the verve of Scott Medlock's illustrations truly echo the energy and joy of participating in athletics. From Jane Yolen's "Karate Kid" to Walt Whitman's "The Runner", the poems in this collection celebrate the pleasure of sport. Full color.

Download or read book Open Book written by Barry Friedman and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise, highly accessible guide to exam success. Provides an insider s view of what professors look for in exam answers, and how exam-taking connects to good lawyering. Accompanied by a Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Features: High-profile, experienced authors from elite schools with hands-on experience teaching the majority of the courses in the traditional 1L curriculum Distinctive central pedagogy: the pinball method of exam-taking Accompanied by Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Explains to students not just the how but the why of law school exams what makes law school exams different from exams students have encountered in other settings Detailed examples provide concrete demonstrations of exam-taking techniques Highly readable: prose is straightforward and humorous; key points accented with memorably amusing illustrations Not just an exam prep book; students are offered guidance on getting the most out of classes, and law school more generally

Download or read book Opening Day written by Rusty Trimble and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Las Vegas Invaders are an improbable team, located in a city known for gambling, they have to play cleaner and pured than the other franchises. Thus when two of their top players are suspended for steroid abuse, owner Susan Astor Adams, GM Ted Potter, and Manager Sam Peterson call up their two top minor league prospects to fill their shoes as well as an aging outfielder just returning from Japan. They have an electric mix of new and old talent, but will it be enough?Opening Day is the first book in the Stealing First series. We hope that it will be as fun for you to read as it was for us to write.

Download or read book Opening Day written by Ric Davies and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not only about baseball, but you will enjoy the drama, romance, sights, sounds and all things associated with the love of the game. The book will make you long for the days when baseball was America's game and kids played all day long on a sandlot. It will make you long for the days when being a fan counted and you were proud of your home team and really wanted to be at the home team's ball park! Author and coach Ric Davies shows his own passion for the game in OPENING DAY and helps you to remember your own! You will enjoy this story and relive a time when this game and all that it represents was truly bigger than life!

Download or read book Opening Day written by Dan Bertalan and published by Envisage Unlimited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Opening Day written by Jonathan Knight and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening Day is sportswriter Jonathan Knight's inning-by-inning look at the opening game at Jacobs Field on April 4, 1994. New home to the Cleveland Indians, The Jake was for fans symbolic of the team's turnaround. For the regional community this new ballpark marked the beginning of Cleveland's long awaited renaissance. and David, purchased the underfinanced and mismanaged franchise. And despite a devastating 1991 season, when the Tribe lost a record 105 games and finished in last place, 34 games behind the division-leading Toronto Blue jays, the team and its fans persevered. The Jacobs' legacy culminated in the opening of Jacobs Field, variously described as a Jewel and Cleveland's field of dreams, in the spring of 1994. The Indians made more postseason appearances in the first five years at Jacobs Field than in the previous ninety-three seasons of franchise history. days of the past, creating this story that shows how the fortunes of the team and the city converged. On that day in early April, the Indians and the City of Cleveland together experienced a true opening day-one in which the past was forgotten and future was clear and bright.