Outdoor Play

As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali - George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he'd tested positive for HIV.

What does it mean to be ready to play? Coaches and athletes understand the importance of being ready to play. However, many competitors find it difficult to define mental readiness and a challenge to be ready to play each and every time they perform. Ready to Play: Mental Training for Student-Athletes is written to help athletes better understand what it means to be ready to play and how to create and maintain a positive mindset for performance.

All-Star player Ben Zobrist (Tampa Bay Rays), considered one of the best all-around players in baseball, writes about the importance of his faith, life, and athletic career in Double Play. Written with his wife, Christian singer Julianna Zobrist, and MikeYorkey, best-selling author of Every Man's Battle and Linspired: The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Lin, the audiobook gives fans a first look into the heart of an athlete whose talent and devotion to God, family, and baseball make him one of the most loveable figures in the Major League today.

Just as no football team can be successful without a solid game plan, you can't be successful without one either. This book is full of Matt's inspirational, motivational, and prescriptive advice, such as: be authentic, create opportunities, power through adversity, reaffirm your goals, rebuild, and many other strategies for developing your own personal game plan to succeed in business and in life.

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of 11 men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe - except that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, cunning Bajan drug dealers, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiotic Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, and whole armies of pitch-invading penguins, you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for.

Aus der Höhe des Geistes gesehen, hat Fußball etwas erschreckend Direktes, den Geschmack des physischen Kampfs und den Geruch von Körpern und Erde. Kann ein Spiel, das sich so offensichtlich gegen die Zivilisation stellt, einen philosophischen Gehalt haben? Dieser Frage geht der Sportphilosoph Gunter Gebauer nach, indem er das Fußballspiel ins Verhältnis zu anderen kulturellen Errungenschaften setzt. Aus verschiedenen Perspektiven nähert er sich so der Faszination, die das beliebteste aller Spiele über alle Grenzen hinweg auslöst. Ein Hörerlebnis mit vielen Originaltönen aus sechs Jahrzehnten Fußballgeschichte!

Are you interested in improving your paintball game? Are you looking for the best paintball guns, paintball gear and how to make your paintball equipment last longer? Are you looking for cheap paintball supplies? Or are you looking to GET PAID to play paintball? This book has the answers to all those questions. This book covers the basics of paintball, paintball rules, various paintball gun reviews, paintball gear, paintball tournaments, and paintball parks.

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of America's most beloved sporting event - the Super Bowl - an authoritative collection of the most pivotal plays through the decades, compiled by the legendary Jerry Rice.

The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach, and player’s support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of tight-lock (number five) in rugby union.

The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach, and player’s support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of inside center (number 12) in Rugby Union.

The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach, and player’s support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of blindside winger (number 11) in rugby union.

Specialist training in the position of blindside flanker in the sport of rugby union from Develop a Player.

So you want to start playing Spades with your friends and family! That’s good! But you don’t know the slightest thing regarding its rules, let alone its terminology or winning strategies. No worries, this audiobook will definitely help you out! Whether you are a complete Spades beginner or you simply want to take your game to your next level, this guide is just for you! Make this Spades guide yours today and slowly transform from a beginner to a master!

The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach and player’s support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of Tight-head Prop (No. 3) in rugby union. The objectives of this audiobook are to provide the listener with an understanding of the natural physical and mental development of young players, an appreciation of the statistics of modern rugby union and use that information to guide the player’s development, a blueprint for the elite conditioning needed to help young players achieve results; and much more.

The purpose of this book is to provide the player, family, coach, and player’s support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of hooker (no. 2) in rugby union.

The purpose of this audiobook is to provide the player, family, coach, and player’s support network with the information needed for positional excellence in the position of Loose-head Prop (No. 1) in rugby union.

Field hockey is a great outdoor sport if you want to keep fit and agile. In How to Play Field Hockey, you will learn to keep yourself fit and healthy by introducing yourself to the basics, history, and origin of field hockey, learning some excellent hockey techniques like passing the ball, offense, and defense, and learning how to play specialized shots like penalty corner and penalty stroke through a step-by-step process.

Surprising, entertaining, and always imparting an important life lesson, It's How You Play the Game features anecdotes and vignettes that are sure to benefit any listener.

If you want to learn how to play cricket then check out this guide.

Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn't help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. From baseball to basketball and football to ice hockey, Balmer explores the origins and histories of big-time sports from the late nineteenth century to the present, with entertaining anecdotes and fresh insights into their ties to religious life.