This fun-packed book is for baseball fans who enjoy challenging and boosting their knowledge of America’s greatest sport. Adkins provides new multiple-choice questions for all 366 days of the leap year, with accurate answers on the back of each page, detailed notes, and source citations to joyful sites like BoSoxInjection. Unlike others, this sports calendar packs tons of current facts and fun trivia questions about each MLB franchise. Discover the greatest records, players, facts, and trades, and their associated calendar dates. This includes perfect games, World Series title games, and much more – a perfect gift for any baseball lover!
Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a “bum bridge player.” For such insubordination, he slaps her hard in front of their stunned guests and announces he is leaving. Moments later, sobbing, with a Colt .32 pistol in hand, Myrtle fires four shots, killing her husband. The Roaring 1920s inspired nationwide fads–flagpole sitting, marathon dancing, swimming-pool endurance floating. But of all the mad games that cheered Americans between the wars, the least likely was contract bridge. As the Barnum of the bridge craze, Ely Culbertson, a tuxedoed boulevardier with a Russian accent, used mystique, brilliance, and a certain madness to transform bridge from a social pastime into a cultural movement that made him rich and famous. In writings, in lectures, and on the radio, he used the Bennett killing to dramatize bridge as the battle of the sexes. Indeed, Myrtle Bennett’s murder trial became a sensation because it brought a beautiful housewife–and hints of her husband’s infidelity–from the bridge table into the national spotlight. James A. Reed, Myrtle’s high-powered lawyer and onetime Democratic presidential candidate, delivered soaring, tear-filled courtroom orations. As Reed waxed on about the sanctity of womanhood, he was secretly conducting an extramarital romance with a feminist trailblazer who lived next door. To the public, bridge symbolized tossing aside the ideals of the Puritans–who referred derisively to playing cards as “the Devil’s tickets”–and embracing the modern age. Ina time when such fearless women as Amelia Earhart, Dorothy Parker, and Marlene Dietrich were exalted for their boldness, Culbertson positioned his game as a challenge to all housebound women. At the bridge table, he insisted, a woman could be her husband’s equal, and more. In the gathering darkness of the Depression, Culbertson leveraged his own ballyhoo and naughty innuendo for all it was worth, maneuvering himself and his brilliant wife, Jo, his favorite bridge partner, into a media spectacle dubbed the Bridge Battle of the Century. Through these larger-than-life characters and the timeless partnership game they played, The Devil’s Tickets captures a uniquely colorful age and a tension in marriage that is eternal.
Gary Sapp, an avid sports fanatic, tackles the world's last remaining superpower: The National Football League. On paper the brand never looked stronger. Revenue is approaching 15 billion dollars a season. Over 100 Million people watched the last Super Bowl. The International Series in London has grossed over 30 million per contest. How could a league at the height of its power and sphere of influence be showing chinks in the armor? Gary Sapp believes that outrageous ticket pricing, over exposure on television and favoritism for the offensive side of the ball is setting the NFL up for a devastating fall. Hardcore fans are turned off by greedy owners, constant rule changes discouraging defense, troubled players, and the lack of physical play that once made the game great. And yet it is not too late to save America's game from Roger Goodell and hand full of owners who are continuing to throw daggers at loyal patrons while they line their pockets with millions upon millions of dollars.
Ever since witnessing the days of Vince Lombardi and the first two Super Bowls, this eight year-old boy’s life altering experience created an ardent and life long fan of the Green Bay Packers. Despite living in Connecticut, his singular dedication to the Packers has provided significant milestones, and his loyalty for this unique Wisconsin team has never wavered. Vasquez shares his enthusiasm as he attempts to persuade that the Green Bay Packers are all that they represent; a singular organization of integrity, sportsmanship and heart, in the big business world of professional football. Packer Passion offers a unique and interesting story of one fan’s love for this remarkable organization, including up-close and personal experiences with players and coaches that made the Green Bay Packers the greatest football team of all time.
Patricia Pollard is wealthy, beautiful, and needs Sam McCloud's help. Mrs. Pollard is upset by the indiscretions of her preacher husband, Peter Pollard; and to make matters worse, her best friend's husband, the corporate financial officer of Pollard's religious empire, has disappeared. As a private investigator in the North-Central California City of Modesto, McCloud struggles to keep his relationship with the gorgeous Mrs. Pollard on a professional level. "Mac" enlists his cousin, Swede Anderson, the owner of the Downtown Athletic Club, to assist in the investigation. The twists and turns extend into Hawaii, Mexico, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with treachery everywhere. As Mac and Swede follow a confusing trail of clues in Norman Adkins's disappearance, they discover a network of slavery, drugs, and murder and attempts to discourage both of them in the pursuit of the truth. As it turns out, the truth can be stranger than fiction.
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