Sports Softball

This every-day baseball trivia book for 2024 is targeted for baseball fanatics of all ages who enjoy a daily trivia question about hardball. It contains one trivia question for each of the 366-days of the leap year, with answers following. The emphasis is entertainment and accuracy (each question and statement has been fact checked multiple times). Some baseball trivia fans have complained about getting just one trivia question for weekends, annoying for real fans.

If you're a parent who cherishes family time and the joy of watching your child light up with every minute of an educational yet thrilling story, then you'll find a home run in "Batter's Journey: Swing for the Fences." Are you looking for a way to combine your love for teaching and your passion for nurturing your children’s growth through powerful stories? Have you been searching for that perfect blend of entertainment and life lessons to share with your children during those precious reading hours?

"Dad, Am I Ready for College Baseball?" is the essential guide for aspiring collegiate baseball players and their parents, packed with strategic insights to gain a competitive edge in the ever-evolving recruitment landscape. This book is your comprehensive playbook, which includes crucial do's and don'ts, helping you navigate through the complexities of NCAA's recent recruiting changes in 2023 with ease and confidence.

Sports trivia is always exciting and fun. Trying to guess the answers alone is challenging, but it brings even more fun and challenges when you are in a group racing to be the first to answer, or maybe making a game out of it with friends and family. Three audiobooks combined into one bundle: Sports Trivia: All About Football, Sports Trivia: All About Basketball, and Sports Trivia: All About Baseball. People with some sports history will recognize most, if not all, the teams, players, coaches, stats, and most everything else mentioned in the audiobook.

Sports trivia is always exciting and fun. Trying to guess the answers alone is challenging, but it brings even more fun and challenges when you are in a group racing to be the first to answer, or maybe making a game out of it with friends and family. This audiobook is all about baseball trivia, 40 questions mostly about MLB, with a bonus of 10 MLB team nicknames and 50 MLB player nicknames. People with some baseball history will recognize most, if not all, the teams, players, coaches, stats, and most everything else mentioned in the audiobook.

"Baseball Fundamentals: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Baseball" is an essential listen for anyone looking to dive into the world of baseball, whether you're a complete novice or a budding player. This comprehensive guide covers every aspect of the game, from the basic rules and equipment to advanced techniques for those ready to take their skills to the next level.

Jenny, like any good pitcher, knows when to throw at a batter. When to throw a fastball. And when to drop and cover. Like now. Especially as big, meaty Lacey glares at her. Hands the size of bear paws, and the entire softball team saying in pretty clear words: Go. Home. The short story that inspired the novel Swing Away. A story of friendship, finding your own place, and just maybe, a date to the prom.

Sports fans will cheer for these exciting titles, which capture some of the most thrilling moments in college and professional sports. From buzzer-beater basketball shots and amazing trick football plays to soccer’s World Cup goals and baseball’s World Series home runs, these titles are packed with action stories. Listeners will also meet each sport’s superstars and record holders—and revel in all the fascinating facts every fan wants to know.

Why does a football spiral? How do some athletes jump so high? The answer is science! The Secret Science of Sports helps kids better understand concepts of science, technology, engineering, and math through the sports they love to play and watch.

From the Super Bowl to the Thanksgiving game, millions of families gather throughout the week to watch their favorite teams duke it out. Kids and grandparents alike share the thrill of watching their team get that perfect tackle or last-minute save. Now you have the opportunity to share the history of the sport with your kids with one engaging guide. 210.2 million people follow the NBA league across its various social media platforms, making it the most popular sports league in the world. So why is it that no one really understands its history?

No origin story of the New York Mets is complete without Ed Kranepool. The lefty first baseman known as "Steady Eddie" made his major-league debut at age seventeen during the team's inaugural season and would eventually depart, nearly two decades later, with his name written throughout the franchise's record books. In this definitive autobiography, Kranepool shares a remarkable life story.

Before 1918, the Boston Red Sox were unstoppable. They won World Series after World Series, thanks in part to their charismatic pitcher-slugger Babe Ruth. But some people on the Red Sox felt the Babe was more trouble than he was worth, and he was traded away to one of the worst teams in baseball, the New York Yankees. From then on, the Yankees became a golden team. And the Red Sox? For more than 80 years, they just couldn’t win another World Series. Then, in 2004, along came a scruffy, scrappy Red Sox team. Could they break Babe Ruth’s curse and win it all?

In The Things He Could Have Been, W. Nikola-Lisa pulls back the curtain on Babe Ruth’s off-the-field shenanigans, offering the listener a humorous, yet highly informative, portrayal of the Yankee slugger. Ruth was multi-talented and, it's not really hard to imagine, could have been many things - a professional golfer, a heavyweight boxer, a movie star, a football player, just to name a few of his interests.

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming of the city, and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out in 1990. It looked like New York would remain a Mets town well into the twenty-first century.

メジャー史上最高額・北米スポーツ史上最高額の大型契約で 来シーズンよりドジャースへ移籍を決断

From 1900 to 1919, a host of great players ushered in a century of groundbreaking baseball. Many exceptional diamond icons during this period established single-season modern era records that have acted as a litmus test for players throughout history to try to surpass. The old adage that records are made to be broken isn't necessarily a practical conclusion when it comes to the great players in this book. Some of these records, set over a century ago, still haven't been broken.

¿Cuáles son las cualidades de un superhéroe? Con esta divertida historia musical te darás cuenta de que no hace falta volar para ayudar a la gente y hacer un mundo de paz. ¡Todos podemos ser mucho más!

ベストセラー『栗山ノート』続編を緊急出版！ここでしか読めない、歓喜と感動をくれた侍たちの激闘の舞台裏。

This book will teach you how to improve your baseball and volleyball skills.

This entry in a brand new line of sports biographies from Matt Christopher takes listeners onto the plate with a baseball legend. Babe Ruth was baseball's first true power hitter, a strong pitcher, and smart outfielder who made some amazing game-saving catches. His love of the sport came through in his playfulness on the field and drive to win, but Babe had to overcome a lot of obstacles in order to become the greatest. This comprehensive biography - with bonus photos and infographics - tells the story behind the legend.