Those who have a longing for baseball nostalgia and remember playing Little League baseball in the 1950s will have a quite a time with Bruce Fabricant's Baseball Boys. More than six decades have passed since youngsters in Mount Vernon, New York donned baseball uniforms for the first time to play in the city's inaugural Little League season. The years disappear as Fabricant rediscovers the first 10 years of Little League baseball in his hometown beginning in 1950. He gives us all the history, a skillful reconstruction of each year bringing exciting pennant races alive. Every Mount Vernon youngster who played Little League ball then is in the book. We meet the league's founding fathers including Mount Vernon native Andy Karl, who set a National League record by pitching 167 innings in relief, a record that stood until 1974. Conversations with Mount Vernonites Ralph Branca and Ken Singleton reveal their experiences growing up on the city's baseball diamonds. Twenty-five men who played Little League ball in the '50s tell first-hand accounts, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tender, of their remembrances. More than 100 photographs capture Little Leaguers from that era. Baseball Boys also gives us the 10 all-time best of the best from that decade, surely a controversial list for any fan.
Come back to the 1950s and relive the dreams of 15 young boys who grew up playing baseball in Mount Vernon, New York. Hear them reminisce about what it was like 60 years ago living in a community where baseball was not just a sport but a way of life. Meet their dads and brothers who threw practices pitches after dinner and bought them their first mitts. Meet the mom who pulled her son out of kindergarten to watch a New York Giants game at the Polo Grounds on Ladies Day. Travel with them as they sang All I Have to Do Is Dream on the bus to away games. But most of all, hear how they became the A.B. Davis High School baseball team that won a championship in 1959.
Come back to Mount Vernon, NY of the 1940s and 50s and hear what I was like growing up and going to school in “The City of Homes” located 30 minutes north of Manhattan. Visit long forgotten stores on Fourth Avenue like Genungs and The Fair. Return to old familiar places like Gleb's Deli, The Sugar Bowl, The Bee Hive, Proctors and Loew's. Take a trip back to Gramatan Avenue and to A.B. Davis High School and its crowded hallways. Chuckle at the wire-caged outside staircase that Pop Phillips looked out on every spring day. Let the beat of the annual school band parade drums resonate again while you “ March, March On Down The Field” with all the high school sports teams. But most of all, hear how it was to grow up in this New York City suburb where no one was obliged to do anything more than go to school, play and stay out of trouble.Written by men and women 50 years after they graduated from A.B. Davis in 1960, “Remembering Mount Vernon, The Place We Called Home” recalls warm and vivid memories about all things Mount Vernon of a bygone era. Bruce Fabricant of the '60 class assembled the essays.
Each spring from 1986 through 1989 baseball fans in the Village of Ardsley, New York were treated to wondrous afternoons watching Coach Neil Fitzpatrick's high school teams achieve success unmatched by any school in the history of the Empire State. Four straight state titles, a legendary sequence that has yet to be equaled. Ardsley's Dynasty is a detailed year-by-year account of how it happened interlaced with personal interviews with Fitzpatrick and his players. Hear teenagers reminisce about living in a village where playing summer baseball was not just a sport but a way of life. Take the mound during those championship years with pitching workhorse George Phillips and meet his teammate C.J. Russo, the intense clutch playing second baseman. Go to bat with Jeff Caldara as his dramatic home run kept Ardsley's dream alive for another championship run. Follow the ball around the diamond in an Ardsley triple play for the ages. Meet Bernie McNerney who Coach Fitz called his greatest pitcher and Tom Caldara, the only Ardsley player ever to play in four state baseball tournaments. Ardsley's Dynasty is filled with nostalgic and poignant remembrances of a time gone by, championships won, and of friendships forged on the village's baseball diamonds. Bruce Fabricant grew up in Mount Vernon, NY and has been a baseball fan for as long as he can recall. He lived in Ardsley for 25 years and spent many an afternoon watching Coach Fitzpatrick's youngsters play ball during this championship era.
Bruce By: Bruce Williams Bruce is a lesson to let people know you can change in your life. You don’t have to settle. You can choose life and choose GOD.
Come back to the 1950s and relive the dreams of 15 young boys who grew up playing baseball in Mount Vernon, New York. Hear them reminisce about what it was like 60 years ago living in a community where baseball was not just a sport but a way of life. Meet their dads and brothers who threw practices pitches after dinner and bought them their first mitts. Meet the mom who pulled her son out of kindergarten to watch a New York Giants game at the Polo Grounds on Ladies Day. Travel with them as they sang All I Have to Do Is Dream on the bus to away games. But most of all, hear how they became the A.B. Davis High School baseball team that won a championship in 1959.
A study of the long-term decline of the labour movement in America, exploring the outlook for labour and unions in the 21st century. There are insights from contributors from a range of backgrounds - academic and non-academic, domestic and foreign, pro- and anti-union.
The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Priscilla Walton and Bruce Tucker examine critical moments in the aftermath of 9/11 – the Enron scandal, the trial of Martha Stewart, the capture and rescue of Jessica Lynch, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison, the widespread popularity of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Tim LeHaye's "Left Behind" series, Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and former president Ronald Reagan's funeral. The authors argue that commentators on the American scene abandoned complexity, seeking to reduce events to their simplest signification. They ask how the singularity of meaning came to dominate American cultural consciousness, and they seek to theorize the critical cultural and political movements of the post 9/11 period.
A teacher is never a giver of truth—he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst."—Bruce Lee Within the pages of Striking Thoughts, you will find the secrets of Bruce Lee's incredible success— as an actor, martial artist, and inspiration to the world. Consisting of eight sections, Striking Thoughts covers 72 topics and 825 aphorisms—from spirituality to personal liberation and from family life to filmmaking—all of which Bruce lived by. His ideas helped energize his life and career and made it possible for him to live a happy and assured life, overcoming challenging obstacles with seeming ease. They also inspired his family, friends, students, and colleagues to achieve success in their own lives and this personal collection will help you in your journey too. Sections include: On First Principles—including life, existence, time, and death On Being Human—including the mind, happiness, fear, and dreams On Matters of Existence—health, love, marriage, raising children, ethics, racism, and adversity On Achievement—work, goals, faith, success, money, and fame On Art and Artists—art, filmmaking, and acting On Personal Liberation—conditioning, Zen Buddhism, meditation, and freedom On the Process of Becoming—self-actualization, self-help, self-expression, and growth On Ultimate (Final) Principles—Yin-yang, totality, Tao, and the truth This Bruce Lee Book is part of the Bruce Lee Library which also features: Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon Bruce Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu Bruce Lee: Artist of Life Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body Bruce Lee: Jeet Kune Do
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