Here is Ron Luciano, the funniest ump ever to call balls and strikes. A huge and awesome legend who leaps and spins and shoots players with an index finger while screaming OUTOUTOUT!!! Now baseball's flamboyant fan-on-the-field comes out from behind the mask to call the game as he really sees it. There’s the day the automatic umpire debuted at home plate—and struck out. The time Rod Carew stole home twice in one inning, and Earl Weaver stole second base—and took it back to the dugout. The pitch Tommy John dropped on the mound, which Luciano called a strike. And there’s the fantastic phantom double play, the impossible frozen ice-ball theory, and, another first, Luciano picking Harmon Killebrew off second base. From brawls to catcalls, from dugout jokes to on-the-field pratfalls to one-of-a-kind conversations with baseball’s greats, Ron Luciano, the only umpire who confessed to missing calls, takes a few grand slam swings of his own. It is baseball at its best.
More often than not, we think of a country's history as a narrative, a sequential tale of great people and important events. but sometimes it's more revealing to think of history as a visual map of the eras, inventions, ideas, and people that have shaped our country for more than five hundred years, from its first visitors to he formative events of the 21st century.
You can get mad. Or you can get even. Atlanta investigative journalist J.D. Bragg returns to the little corner of upstate South Carolina where he grew up, hoping for a pleasant weekend break. What he finds is anything but pleasant. He discovers the editor of the local newspaper savagely beaten and lying unconscious on her kitchen floor. He calls in the police, but with no suspects and no motive, their investigation goes nowhere. J.D. can't sit idly by. To the cops, solving the crime might be just a job. But to J.D., it's personal. The editor is the woman he loves. J.D. Bragg is a man who never met a wrong he didn't want to right. For fans of C.J. Box's Joe Pickett, John Sanford's Virgil Flowers and Greg Isles' Penn Cage, a J.D. Bragg mystery is the perfect read.
Known as two of the best pistol fighters of their day, Ben Thompson and King Fisher have remained an enigma in the chronicles of the American West. While other gunfighters have achieved infamy through the stories told in pulp magazines and newspapers of the day these two men were largely ignored. Both were credited with killing a string of men during their lifetime and the mere mention of their names was usually enough to sober up a drunken opponent or cause a sober man to contemplate his own epitaph. The Texas Pistoleers tells their story in vivid detail and relates the historically accurate account of their deaths in a mystery shrouded ambush in a San Antonio saloon on a chilly March night in 1884.
Tapping his own memory and those of other umpires, players, and sportscasters, Luciano packs his nostalgic book with celebrated personalities and outrageous anecdotes about the good old days of baseball. An all-star line-up of baseball memories and mischief.
The wildly funny, bestselling author of The Umpire Strikes Back and Strike Two has collected into one volume the best of baseball's bloopers, blunders, and bench-warmers. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs.
Ravenwood Special Edition Of the original Ravenwood Stepson of Mystery stories, there were only ever five. In the past three years Airship 27 Productions has published nine short stories and one full length novel starring this unique occult detective. Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to reprint four of those fan-favorite tales in this new edition. This volume features writers Aaron Smith, Jonathan Fisher, Gene Moyers and Ron Fortier, as each adds his own storytelling talents to one of pulpdom's least known but most original heroes. Sit back and prepare to encounter bizarre, supernatural mysteries as only Airship 27 Productions can deliver.
Addressing the Professional Standards for Teachers and Trainers, this bestselling textbook helpfully balances theory and practice, introducing key theories and concepts relating to learning and assessment as well as providing practical advice on teaching. Extensively revised and updated to reflect the current educational policy environment, this textbook for teaching provides thorough and extensive coverage of the topics for higher-level awards in Education and Training. The textbook provides a logical progression through the essential aspects of teaching, such as planning and assessment; it considers key related areas including teacher professionalism, equality and diversity, and mentoring and coaching; and it presents this invaluable guidance in an accessible and readable format. In outlining the challenges, opportunities, and debates in and around lifelong learning, the editors and contributing authors draw on their extensive teaching experience, as well as offering an evidence-based approach with a wide range of research. Teaching in Lifelong Learning: A Guide to Theory and Practice is core reading for those teaching or preparing to teach in further, higher and community education as well as in public sector contexts and in private training organisations, including those studying for CertEd/PGCE and related awards, such as the Level 4 Certificate and Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training. 'Teacher education in FE continues to be an important and unresolved issue, and this book is a great asset in supporting individuals in understanding and developing their practices. With a focus on developing critical, inquiring practitioners, the text reads like an experienced mentor sharing pointers, questions, and useful readings over a collegial cup of coffee'. Dr Tim Herrick, Senior University Teacher, University of Sheffield, UK
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