A chronicle of the 1947 baseball season during which Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier is a sixtieth anniversary tribute based on interviews with Robinson's wife, daughter, and teammates.

The Las Vegas Invaders are an improbable team, located in a city known for gambling, they have to play cleaner and pured than the other franchises. Thus when two of their top players are suspended for steroid abuse, owner Susan Astor Adams, GM Ted Potter, and Manager Sam Peterson call up their two top minor league prospects to fill their shoes as well as an aging outfielder just returning from Japan. They have an electric mix of new and old talent, but will it be enough?Opening Day is the first book in the Stealing First series. We hope that it will be as fun for you to read as it was for us to write.

This book is not only about baseball, but you will enjoy the drama, romance, sights, sounds and all things associated with the love of the game. The book will make you long for the days when baseball was America's game and kids played all day long on a sandlot. It will make you long for the days when being a fan counted and you were proud of your home team and really wanted to be at the home team's ball park! Author and coach Ric Davies shows his own passion for the game in OPENING DAY and helps you to remember your own! You will enjoy this story and relive a time when this game and all that it represents was truly bigger than life!

In this unique collection of sports poems by a first-string team of beloved poets, the vitality of the language and the verve of Scott Medlock's illustrations truly echo the energy and joy of participating in athletics. From Jane Yolen's "Karate Kid" to Walt Whitman's "The Runner", the poems in this collection celebrate the pleasure of sport. Full color.

A concise, highly accessible guide to exam success. Provides an insider s view of what professors look for in exam answers, and how exam-taking connects to good lawyering. Accompanied by a Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Features: High-profile, experienced authors from elite schools with hands-on experience teaching the majority of the courses in the traditional 1L curriculum Distinctive central pedagogy: the pinball method of exam-taking Accompanied by Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Explains to students not just the how but the why of law school exams what makes law school exams different from exams students have encountered in other settings Detailed examples provide concrete demonstrations of exam-taking techniques Highly readable: prose is straightforward and humorous; key points accented with memorably amusing illustrations Not just an exam prep book; students are offered guidance on getting the most out of classes, and law school more generally

Opening Day is a 2012 Indie B.R.A.G. medallion recipient. Young girls are coming through a pastoral Upstate New York fishing village...but, they aren't all coming out--alive Following a close brush with death as an NYPD homicide detective, Matt Davis has taken early retirement, and accepted a position as Chief of Police in Roscoe. While out fly-fishing for trout on his favorite stream, he stumbles across the remains of a body, barely recognizable as human, killed approximately six months earlier. With no physical evidence, no identification, and no clues, it's up to Matt to not only find the murderer, but to discover the identity of the victim. However, the big question is: Are there others? Opening Day is the second in the Matt Davis Mystery Series, and picks up where As the Twig is Bent left off. It is a 2012 Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree. The third in the series is Twice Bitten, available now.