Spitter

Download or read book Spitter written by David Vaught and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2023 CASEY Award Gaylord Jackson Perry was born in 1938 as the younger son of a tobacco sharecropper in Martin County, North Carolina. He and his older brother Jim grew up against a background of backbreaking work six days a week in a community that boasted not a single paved road until the 1950s. Their only relaxation was playing baseball, first with their father and later at school. While both brothers would go on to succeed as pitchers in major league baseball, for Gaylord, success would require a lot of perseverance and an almost equal amount of subterfuge. After a couple of lackluster seasons with the San Francisco Giants, he learned from bullpen-mate Bob Shaw how to throw the illegal spitball. More importantly, he learned to control the tricky pitch and to conceal it from suspicious umpires, opposing managers, and baffled batters. When he finally broke out the spitter in a victory by attrition in a marathon, 32-inning, nine-hour doubleheader against the Mets in May 1964, his destiny was set. The Hall of Famer would go on to a 314–265 win-loss record, with a 3.11 earned-run average and 3,534 career strikeouts, becoming the first pitcher in major league history to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues. Sports historian David Vaught has mined archival and public records, game statistics, media accounts, and previously published works—including Perry’s 1974 autobiography—to compile the first critical biography of a player as famous for his wry humor and downhome banter as for his trademark illegal pitch. Written for baseball fans and American sports historians, Spitter: Baseball’s Notorious Gaylord Perry provides new insights and genuine enjoyment of the game for a wide range of readers.

Download or read book What Does a Morpheme Spitter Spit written by Michael H. O'Malley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Modern Fairey Story written by Derek Fairey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three high class gentlemen, owned the stable that his grandfather rented for his carting business. Here the similarity between the author and another famous historical figure ends, but our man has had a momentous life full of incidents and scenarios which may make your toes curl up, but read on dear reader and thank your lucky stars if you cannot match these stories.

Download or read book The Zombie Apocalypse Call Center Boxset #2 written by Taylor Ellwood and published by Taylor Ellwood. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting Heroes of the Zombie Apocalypse Call Center, Tales of the Zombie Apocalypse Call Center, Outlaws of the Zombie Apocalypse Call Center and The Zombie Apocalypse Militia The Zombie Apocalypse continues to rage on and the search for a cure seems further and further away, but Sam, Alisha, Michelle and all the others heroes of the Zombie Apocalypse Call Center are determined to find a cure for the zombie infection, no matter what the cost may be. But they also have Dmitri Eslinger, the shadowy CEO of Zombii Co. to contend with and he has his own reasons for starting the zombie apocalypse, reasons that may ultimately save part of humanity, while damning the rest. Can Sam, Alisha and the others stop Eslinger from fully realizing his insane plans to create different zombie strains? Find out in the Zombie Apocalypse Call Center Boxset #2!

Download or read book Impact written by Stephen Greenleaf and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legal battle turns violent in the aftermath of a tragic plane crash The fog is thick as SurfAir 617 readies to land. Onboard, a mother consoles her daughter, two children reminisce about Disneyland, flight attendants flirt with each other, and two lovers agonize over their infidelity. None of them know they are minutes from death. Then SurfAir 617 drops out of the sky, the pilots blinded by the fall, and explodes onto the runway. Only eighteen of more than one hundred passengers survive. The families of the victims soon find themselves under siege by ruthless lawyers and corrupt insurance investigators who will do whatever it takes to cheat them out of their rightful settlements. In retaliation, lawyer Keith Tollison dives into the jungle of aviation law—and a fight to prove that SurfAir 617 should never have been cleared to fly.

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