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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Earth Baseball Tourney: an Invitational to Disaster【電子書籍】[ Claude Walker ]

＜p＞When water magnate (and owner of the minor league Springfield WaterDogs) Reynolds Beckert learns he has a short time to live, his dream of extending the reach of baseball becomes a holy mission. Determined to find the next Clemente in a place like Fiji, he organizes a tournament with the largest purse in history and a lottery which will make some lucky fans billionaires.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His innocent aim - to share the game he loves with the whole world - goes horribly wrong when it is threatened by ninjas, flaming flamingos, anti-baseball protests, echo clones and killer cellphones. Greed and nationalist zeal take the inaugural Earth Baseball Tourney - and humanity - to the apocalyptic brink.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A dark comedy about baseballs globalization and technology-run-amok, ＜em＞＜strong＞The Earth Baseball Tourney: An Invitational to Disaster＜/strong＞＜/em＞ is an ode to the greatest game ever devised. The lyrical tale reminds fans of their first game with their grandfather, aromas of grilled onions and fresh-cut grass, and that distinctive crack of the bat.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Frick* Baseball's Third Commissioner【電子書籍】[ John P. Carvalho ]

＜p＞Ford Frick is best known as the baseball commissioner who put the "asterisk" next to Roger Maris's record. But his tenure as commissioner carried the game through pivotal changes--television, continued integration, West Coast expansion and labor unrest. During those 14 years, and 17 more as National League president, he witnessed baseball history from the perspective of a man who began as a sportswriter. This biography of Frick, whose tenure sparked lively debate about the commissioner's role, provides a detailed narrative of his career and the events and characters of mid-20th century baseball.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Fairly at Bat My 50 years in baseball, from the batter's box to the broadcast booth【電子書籍】[ Ron Fairly ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Ron Fairly＜/strong＞ had an unbelievable 1958, in which he started the year playing baseball at the University of Southern California and ended it as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers. And then it got better.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Fairly at Bat＜/em＞ is a dramatic, funny, and altogether entertaining romp through a 50-year career as a player and broadcaster, including as a member of three World Series champion Dodgers teams in the 1950s and ‘60s.＜/p＞ ＜p＞All the stars of those great teams are here, not just as players, but as people, teammates and friends. The old guard from Brooklyn and the new stars in Los Angeles: ＜strong＞Gil Hodges, Duke Snider, Carl Furillo, Frank Howard, Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Maury Wills＜/strong＞ and so many more. How the Dodgers who came west made Los Angeles their own, even winning a World Series in a football stadium until Dodger Stadium was built.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fairly takes you into the lives of baseball players of the 1960s and ‘70s, not only between the basepaths, but in off-hours before and after the games. His memoir includes not only the Dodgers, but players he faced such as Cardinals Hall of Fame pitcher ＜strong＞Bob Gibson＜/strong＞, or just met along the way, like Red Sox hitting star ＜strong＞Ted Williams＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The incidents are famous, of course, like the 1963 World Series sweep of the New York Yankees, how a bad scouting report almost cost the Dodgers the 1965 World Series and what it was like to be swept by Baltimore in the 1966 Series. The way baseball was in a rougher time, with brushback pitches and even the infamous Marichal-Roseboro brawl in 1965.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fairly pulls no punches, discussing his relationship with the Dodger management, including owner ＜strong＞Walter O'Malley＜/strong＞, general manager ＜strong＞Buzzie Bavasi＜/strong＞ and manager ＜strong＞Walter Alston＜/strong＞. He includes an amazing story about Alston pulling a star pitcher after 10 pitches ... in batting practice!＜/p＞ ＜p＞So much more: why Fairly chose USC for college over UCLA, even though he was offered a basketball scholarship by Bruins coach ＜strong＞John Wooden＜/strong＞, what Vero Beach was like in the heyday of Dodgertown and his post-Dodgers odyssey that included All-Star selections in Montreal and Toronto and stints in Oakland, St. Louis and a lucky final stop in Anaheim.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He made a very successful transition from player to broadcaster, but just as when he came up with the Dodgers, he had to learn a new trade. Being behind a microphone had its own challenges, much different than those of a player.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Fairly at Bat＜/em＞ is a memoir shaped by his half-century in the game that originally started as a personal journal that has been transformed into 212 pages of fun that's easy to read and enjoy. Fairly worked with long-time ＜em＞Los Angeles Times＜/em＞ sportswriter and author ＜strong＞Steve Springer＜/strong＞, a veteran of more than a dozen books, including best-selling biographies of Lakers owner ＜strong＞Jeanie Buss＜/strong＞, boxing champion ＜strong＞Oscar de la Hoya＜/strong＞ and many others.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's illustrated with Fairly's personal photographs, including those from his youth, and many locker room prank shots that showed teammates and friends having a good time as well as playing a game they loved.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Fairly at Bat: My 50 years in baseball, from the batter's box to the broadcast booth＜/em＞ includes a foreword by Hall of Fame manager ＜strong＞Tommy Lasorda,＜/strong＞ a timeline of Fairly's career from youth baseball in Long Beach, California, to the broadcast booth until his retirement in 2012, and a statistical summary of his 20 years as a major leaguer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“My worst day in a baseball uniform was better than the best day I could have had in any other career.” Share those days with Ron in ＜em＞Fairly at Bat.＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Pro Baseball Comes to the Maine Coast【電子書籍】[ Ted Nichols ]

＜p＞PRO BASEBALL COMES TO THE MAINE COAST is a fictional baseball story about a newly-formed low minor league baseball team that played in a beautiful region of Maine known as Penobscot Bay. The team joined a little-known league made up of independent professional teams that did not have an affiliation with a major league team. A local businessman and a successful small college baseball coach joined together to make something that seemed to be impossible become a reality. A team made up of undrafted small college players played their first season with determination. They were a bunch of team-oriented overachievers. This “feel good” story of the first season is an example of how a sports team can be the bond that can bring an area of small towns together.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Ed Bolden and Black Baseball in Philadelphia【電子書籍】[ Courtney Michelle Smith ]

＜p＞For nearly 40 years, Ed Bolden dominated black baseball in Philadelphia. He owned two teams, the Darby-based Hilldale Club and the Philadelphia Stars, and briefly led the Eastern Colored League, which he founded. Winner of two championships--one with each team--he experienced the highs and lows of the Negro Leagues. He remained with the Stars until his death in 1950, which foreshadowed the dissolution of the Negro Leagues in the face of Major League Baseball's integration. This book examines Bolden's leadership of both teams through economic downturns, racial discrimination and two world wars.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Cardboard Gods An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards【電子書籍】[ Josh Wilker ]

＜p＞＜em＞Cardboard Gods＜/em＞ is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh’s classic observations about the central artifacts from his life: the baseball cards themselves. Josh writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski; he uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as Designated Pinch Runner” Herb Washington and Mark The Bird” Fidrych. ＜em＞Cardboard Gods＜/em＞ is more than just the story of a man who can’t let go of his past, it’s proof that - to paraphrase Jim Bouton - as children we grow up holding baseball cards but in the end we realize that it’s really the other way around.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Bottom of the 33rd Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game【電子書籍】[ Dan Barry ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In "a worthy companion to . . . ＜em＞Boys of Summer＜/em＞," a Pulitzer prize winning journalist "exploits the power of memory and nostalgia with literary grace" ( ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜br /＞ From award-winning ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball historyーa tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues.＜br /＞ On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. For eight hours, the night seemed to suspend a town and two teams between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joysーthe shivering fans; their wives at home; the umpires; the batboys approaching manhood; the ejected manager, peering through a hole in the backstop; the sportswriters and broadcasters; and the players themselvesーtwo destined for the Hall of Fame (Cal Ripken and Wade Boggs), the few to play only briefly or forgettably in the big leagues, and the many stuck in minor-league purgatory, duty bound and loyal forever to the game.＜br /＞ ＜em＞With Bottom of the 33rd＜/em＞, Barry delivers a lyrical meditation on small-town lives, minor-league dreams, and the elements of time and community that conspired one fateful night to produce a baseball game seemingly without end. An unforgettable portrait of ambition and endurance, ＜em＞Bottom of the 33rd＜/em＞ is the rare sports book that changes the way we perceive America's pastimeーand America's past.＜br /＞ "Destined to take its place among the classics of baseball literature." ー ＜em＞Kirkus Reviews＜/em＞ (starred review)＜br /＞ " ＜em＞Bottom of the 33rd＜/em＞ is chaw-chewing, sunflower-spitting, pine tar proof that too much baseball is never enough." ーJane Leavy, author of ＜em＞The Last Boy＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Sandy Koufax＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【楽天ブックスならいつでも送料無料】Mike Hargrove and the Cleveland Indians: A Baseball Life MIKE HARGROVE & THE CLEVELAND [ Ingraham Jim ]

MIKE HARGROVE & THE CLEVELAND Ingraham Jim GRAY & CO PUBL2019 Paperback English ISBN：9781598511109 洋書 Fiction & Literature（小説＆文芸） Biography & Autobiography

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Sex and Baseball【電子書籍】[ Dustin Coleman ]

＜p＞A Wisconsin man's reminiscent words describing life, love, and baseball as seen through the eyes of a so called American Poet.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】History of The Transsexual Baseball League【電子書籍】[ John Jamieson ]

＜p＞It's 2050. Pops, a 95 year-old trans activist, has died. He maintained a scrapbook on the early development of the Transsexual Baseball League in Toronto from the 1970's.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the urn of Pops' deceased lover, a key to a bank safety box leads to notebooks with interviews conducted in 1975 with old baseball players in the Negro Baseball League. The death of Josh Gibson in 1947, suggested poisoning and an assassination. At night, an unapproved excavator exhumes the body to search for a bullet that might be in Josh's head.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The staff of ESQN, the Queer Network, an offshoot of ESPN, prepares funeral arrangements for Gibson at the Boston Gardens; an opportunity to advertise gay-trans baseball. An unusual cast of characters entertains the audience.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The mystery surrounding Pops' lover unravels when an eccentric elder, Mini, makes a confusing deathbed confession to a hard-of-hearing priest. Mini dies with an interesting will.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This 'Black Humor' story, weaves a tale between fact and fiction, showing little restraint for religion, sexual preferences, politicians, media, death, physical peculiarities and the Klan. Many people will identify parts of themselves in the narrative.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

洋書 Picador USA paperback Book, The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, ... and Everything Else in the

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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Baseball Annie【電子書籍】[ George Boxlicker ]

＜p＞Sylvia Jones has always been sexually attracted to baseball players. When a major league franchise transfers to her home town, she has her chance to make her dreams come true and become a groupie without interfering without the rest of her life. On her first night, things work out even better than she could possibly have expected. The sex is better and more varied than Sylvia has ever known and it gets even more exciting after that.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hello, Friends! Stories from My Life and Blue Jays Baseball【電子書籍】[ Jerry Howarth ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An honest memoir about life, family, and baseball from the longtime, legendary Toronto Blue Jays radio broadcaster＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞For 36 years, Jerry Howarth ushered in eternal hope each spring and thrived in the drive of each fall as the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays. In 1982, the lifelong avid sports fan joined Tom Cheek as full-time play-by-play radio announcer for the Blue Jays, and for the next 23 years, “Tom and Jerry” were the voices of the franchise. Jerry became part of the fabric of a nation and a team, covering historic moments like the rise of the Blue Jays through the 1980s that culminated in back-to-back World Series Championships in 1992 and 1993. His Hall of Fame?worthy broadcasting career has been nothing short of legendary. When Jerry retired in February 2018, the tributes poured in and made one thing perfectly clear: Toronto baseball would never be the same.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Howarth brings together thoughts on life, family, work, and baseball. Featuring stories about everyone from Dave Stieb, Jack Morris, Duane Ward, Roberto Alomar, and Joe Carter to John Gibbons, Edwin Encarnacion, Josh Donaldson, and the late Roy Halladay, ＜em＞Hello, Friends!＜/em＞ is a must-read for sports fans everywhere.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Danny Turner: the Deuce Goose A Baseball Fantasy About the St. Louis Cardinals and the 1926 World Series【電子書籍】[ Richard B. Stansberry ]

＜p＞With Danny Turner, Stansberry uses an epistolary to advance, color, and develop characters created in his two earlier novels, So Sings The Chattahoochee and 234 Whitehall. The book focuses on Danny Turner, high school friend of Dewey Favers, and the Campbellton children whose relationships were so solidly formed back in that magical summer of 1912. Watch for the companion book, Dewey Favers: Aviator Angel which contains the other side of this conversation. Coming soon. The book is a collection of letters detailing a year in the life of minor league baseball star Danny Turner, as he is called up to the majors for a glorious season with the 1926 St. Louis Cardinals......the eventual World Series Champions. Perhaps life, is more important, and surprising, than baseball?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Stadium For Rent Tampa Bay's Quest for Major League Baseball【電子書籍】[ Bob Andelman ]

＜p＞This is the true, complicated story of the decades-long battle to bring a baseball team to Florida's West Coast.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Back in print for the first time in two decades, Bob Andelman's detailed investigation has been enhanced with hundreds of political cartoons and photos that illustrate the community's sometimes brutal campaign, as well as an all-new introduction by best-selling sportswriter Peter Golenbock and an afterword by award-winning Tampa Bay Times sports columnist Gary Shelton. Plus, interviews with original Tampa Bay Devil Rays franchise owner Vincent J. Naimoli and the man to whom he sold managing interest in the team, Stuart Sternberg.＜/p＞ ＜p＞No baseball, business, or community development bookshelf should be without this unique story.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞PRAISE FOR STADIUM FOR RENT＜/strong＞ (First Edition)＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Journalist Bob Andelman tells in painful detail how close (Tampa Bay) came to winning... Recommended for serious sports collection.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Morey Berger, Library Journal＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Andelman points a finger not at the bay area’s civic leaders but at the panjandrums of baseball. He provides an impeccably researched play-by-play of every inning of this high-stakes game in which the home team has been shut out... The story is compelling, and in Andelman’s hands, it’s masterfully organized and written.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Tom Chase, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A phenomenal read. The guy did his research... I became so engrossed, I couldn’t put it down.. a superb job on how he put it together.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Erica Stuart, associate producer, 60 Minutes, CBS-TV＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Andelman put it in perspective.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Tom McEwen, “The Morning After,” Tampa Tribune＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Andelman tells the bittersweet, folly-filled tale of Tampa Bay’s courtship of a major league franchiseーthe Florida White Sox, perhaps, or the St. Petersburg Marlins. St. Petersburg, in particular, just couldn’t take no for an answer and built a beautiful stadium, despite a lack of encouragement from Major League Baseball. As it was probably always destined to do, the franchise went to Miami, and St. Petersburg’s stadium is the elaborate home to tractor-pulls.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? John Mort, Booklist＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A work that could cause an iceberg to boil. It has everything but a happy ending, rattling off the aggravation we’ve endured here in the clinical manner of an autopsy.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Joe Henderson, Tampa Tribune＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"Awesome."＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Tedd Webb, 970 WFLA Radio＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“In Stadium For Rent, Bob Andelman details St. Petersburg's journey from stalking horse to major league market with great skill and attention to detail. It's impossible to fully grasp the impact of the worst-to-first AL pennant winners of 2008 without learning how they came into existence.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Jonah Keri, author of The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A home run... If you think there was a lot of public game-playing (if you’ll pardon the pun) going on while the City of St. Petersburg kept getting the short shrift, you should read the book to see what really went on.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? John J. Tischner, Pinellas County Review＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A finely detailed account of this region’s dubious distinction for taking brush-back pitch after brush-back pitch from the denizens of the diamond... It isn’t a pretty story. It isn’t even ugly. Just pathetic. Stadium For Rent is a good, albeit frustrating read.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ? Dan Ruth, Tampa Tribune＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Beyond Home Plate Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball【電子書籍】

＜p＞Jackie Robinson is one of the most revered public figures of the twentieth century. He is remembered for both his athletic prowess and his strong personal character. The world knows him as the man who crossed baseball’s color line, but there is much more to his legacy. At the conclusion of his baseball career, Robinson continued in his pursuit of social progress through his work as a writer. Beyond Home Plate, an anthology of Jackie Robinson’s columns in the ＜em＞New York Post＜/em＞ and the ＜em＞New York Amsterdam News,＜/em＞ offers fresh insight into the Hall of Famer’s life and work following his historic years on the baseball diamond.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Robinson’s syndicated newspaper columns afforded him the opportunity to provide rich social commentary while simultaneously exploring his own life and experiences. He was free to write about any subject of his choosing, and he took full advantage of this license, speaking his mind about everything from playing Santa to confronting racism in the Red Sox nation, from loving his wife Rachel to despising Barry Goldwater, from complaining about Cassius Clay’s verbosity to teaching Little Leaguers how to lose well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Robinson wrote to prod and provoke, inflame and infuriate, and sway and persuade. With their pointed opinions, his columns reveal that the mature Robinson was a truly American prophet, a civil rights leader in his own right, furious with racial injustice and committed to securing first class citizenship for all. These fascinating columns also depict Robinson as an indebted son, a devoted husband, a tenderhearted father, and a hardworking community leader. Robinson believed that his life after his baseball career was far more important than all of his baseball exploits. ＜em＞Beyond Home Plate＜/em＞ shows why he believed this so fervently.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Elle & The Baseball Team Confessions of a Sex Blogger, #4【電子書籍】[ Dee Palmer ]

＜p＞Hello and welcome to my secret world…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Well, what started out as my world and now with the help of my fellow dirty divas has grown and become a sexy beast all its own.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My name is Elle and I love sex and I luuurve to cum. I know, it's shocking!＜/p＞ ＜p＞I love all kinds of sex, adventurous, sweet and sensual, hard and dirty, kinky and oh my you're not going to put that their kind of sex. A few years ago I started a list of all the types of sex I would luuuurve to try. It became my Fuck-it-Bucket List.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It started off fairly tame and simple; hot and fast sex in a public place, a blow job in a cinema, a three-way in the back of a pick-up truck, that kind of thing. I kept a diary and started to tick off my list. My diary turned in my blog: Dirty Fuxxx- Confessions of a Sex Blogger.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I started to get followers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I also started to receive confessions from followers and oh my, aren't we a bunch of filthy perverts dipped in awesome sauce.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There are not enough hours in the day or time on my back to explore everything on my list but with the help of you guys I'm going to try. Some of the confessions are mine, some are yours, hopefully I will keep you guessing which is which…Blushes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So welcome, sit back, grab some tissues, slide your hands down your pants and let me tell you the story of Elle….＜/p＞ ＜p＞Elle Luvs to Fxxx＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The OIdest Guy Joke: A Trilogy of Families, Fame and Baseball【電子書籍】[ Dave Weber ]

＜p＞Greg Rittmeyer lives an almost perfect life for 54 years. Not almost perfect in the sense that each day is beautiful and wonderful, but in the sense that everything he does is excellent but not great, the biggest pot of gold perpetually just out of reach.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meanwhile, Cassandra Banuelos is bearing down on 40 and could care less.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this trilogy of families, fame and baseball bound into one ovel, Greg glides through the baby boomer years into the 21st Century living his B+/A- life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From childhood, he sensed his size, strength and skill would bring success in his chosen sport of baseball. Indeed, he reaches the major leagues and pitches for 13 years, never sent back to the minors, never injured, but never an All-Star, never even once in his team's regular starting rotation, never a closer; he defines journeyman, a generic "big right-hander."＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the other hand, with his pro athlete's 6'7" build, piercing blue-gray eyes and a plainspoken nature, women most other men would consider out of their league line up to play for him. He lives first with a Grammy-award winner singer, then a movie star, then a talented young lawyer ? the cream of the crop from a lifetime of conquests ? but never quite finds himself closing the deal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A quarter century before, a week after her joyful quincea?era, Cassandra was attacked in broad daylight in a pleasant Southern California neighborhood, and life seemed to turn into an ordeal to be survived, with little to celebrate or look forward to. At 17, weeks away from a final chance to prove her family's gang ties didn't define her, the opportunity was ripped away and, in her frustration, she sparks a second violent clash that winds up with her brother dead and a judge giving her a choice: jail or military service.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Twenty years, two Middle Eastern wars and a decorated but dreary run as a military police sergeant later, she sets up shop in a one-woman office as a private investigator in Washington state almost because she can't think of anything else to do after retiring from the Army. She gets up, goes to work, comes home and lifts weights on her back porch to fatigue herself enough to sleep. Then, brought into a large bank fraud investigation by a Seattle law firm, she sees a familiar name on the list of sources she is to contact, a former Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher she and her cousins once met at a movie premiere. The interaction lasted only a minute or two, but the pictures the guy took for them, as she and her older cousins posed with his impossibly beautiful actress girlfriend, are iconic to Cassandra, relicts of the happy girl she'd been always seemed to have before she turned 15 and life began to sour.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Greg thinks he is about to wipe the "almost" off the board, leaving only "perfect," after joining his best friend on the Seattle Mariners' staff after 17 years as a college coach; that life with his latest too-much-for-mortal-men lover, a TV sports reporter little more than half his age, will roll pleasantly through to the finish line realizes isn't as far away as it once was.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Instead, as his life lengthens, Greg realizes every bit of fun his animal magnetism created has been balanced by problems left unsolved. With "change" the mantra of the day in America, facets of life many men encounter at a younger age, fatherhood, violence, romantic failure, catch up to Greg…. as does Cassandra and her search for answers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞NOTE: While this is primarily a story of families and romance and baseball, there are occasional explicit scenes making it most suitable for an adult audience.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Baseball Team’s First Time (Straight to Gay MM Orgy Erotica)【電子書籍】[ D.S. Dawson ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“Don’t worry, man. It’s just a brojob!”＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Stripped nude in the locker room, I stare in shock as the ripped, suntanned athletes crowd around me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Get on the ground.” Duncan grabs my shoulders and shoves me onto the tiled floor.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They leer down with hungry, wolf-like grins spread across their faces. They said they had a birthday gift for me, but I didn’t realize this was it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There’s no turning back now though. This is the ultimate team bonding exercise.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Format: Short story＜br /＞ Length: ~9,500 words＜br /＞ ***CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT***＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞All characters participating in sexual acts are consenting adults.＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Baseball Bride The Masons of Brightfield, #1【電子書籍】[ Claire Sanders ]

＜p＞Simon Mason taught all his children how to play baseball, including his only daughter, Abigail. But it's 1910, and Abigail is more interested in keeping her baseball prowess a secret so she can prove she's not a tomboy. When the home team is faced with forfeiting the championship game, will Abigail step up to the plate?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Abigail and her three brothers will charm their way into your hearts as each fights for love.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Seduced by Satan: A Baseball Story【電子書籍】[ Michael Joseph ]

＜p＞Washington National's top relief pitcher Rock Harmon has dreamed of making the baseball playoffs since he was a young boy＜br /＞ playing Little League. Now in the twilight of a great career he begins to struggle. The team hires Dana Dee, an alluring but charming＜br /＞ Sports Psychologist, with a proven track record of helping professional athletes improve their performance on the field. Dana immediately＜br /＞ impacts the performances of several of Rock's teammates, but Rock has his suspicions about her, and when he refuses her initial advances, his life begins to spiral even further downhill. Dana discovers Rock has been spending time with Angie Renaldo, who has loved Rock since she was a young girl, Dana becomes enraged and Rock pays the price. Rock learns the hard way that Dana is too powerful a force to defeat, but later discovers she has an agenda of her own which she can't complete without Rock's help. Dana makes Rock a startling proposition but will Rock accept?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words A True Story of Little League, Laughter, and Life【電子書籍】[ Andy Andrews ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words reveals the hilarity and magic of Little League baseball.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Often called “the funniest tale ever told,” this story will have you laughing until you cry, while warming your soul, reminding you of childhood and a simpler time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1970, eleven-year-old Andy Andrews and a group of friends began a Little League season they would never forget. All the usual ingredients were thereーwell-worn gloves, freshly cut grass, and new uniforms. But the addition of a coach who was “new to the area” is what made this season truly unforgettable for young Andy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Baseball fans and both current and former Little Leaguers will love the funny story, the age-old baseball wisdom quoted from some of the game’s greatest players, and the vintage baseball photography.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Selling Baseball How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America【電子書籍】[ Jeffrey Orens ]

＜p＞＜strong＞**Booklist Starred Review**＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞A fascinating look back on baseball's humble beginnings and its transformation into the national pastime, told through the lives of two men who dominated the game.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for the game of “base ball,” and players George Wright and Albert Spalding were right in the thick of it. These two young men, the first superstars of the professional game, won the hearts of a country in search of a unifying spirit after a devastating civil war.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Selling Baseball: How Superstars George Wright and Albert Spalding Impacted Sports in America＜/em＞ breathes fresh energy into baseball's beginnings with this captivating tale of two vibrant personalities whose friendly rivalry was integral to the rise of the professional game. While they came from starkly different backgrounds-Albert was a young, gangly pitcher from the country's rural heartland and George the consummate athlete from the New York City area-their captivating performances on the field, along with their promotion of the game and of sports equipment, fed the public's insatiable appetite for leisure-time pursuits and helped grow professional baseball to unprecedented heights.＜/p＞ ＜p＞George Wright and Albert Spalding's stories are masterfully woven together to paint a sweeping picture of the early days of professional baseball, the evolution of sports as a business, and the advancement of sports equipment and the sporting goods industry. Their rise as players and businessmen mirrored the rise of a nation that would lead the world in the coming century.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Is This a Great Game, or What? From A-Rod's Heart to Zim's HeadーMy 25 Years in Baseball【電子書籍】[ Tim Kurkjian ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Stories and observations from the ESPN baseball commentator: "Is this a great book or what? Hilarious, irreverent, informative." ーDan Shaughnessy, author of ＜em＞Reversing the Curse＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ESPN's Tim Kurkjian has spent over twenty-five years covering almost 3,000 Major League Baseball gamesーand interviewing about that many players, coaches, managers and executives. In ＜em＞Is This a Great Game, or What?＜/em＞, Kurkjian combines his years of experience and his uncanny knowledge and deep love of the game to create a book filled with some of the most fascinating insight into Major League Baseball this side of Jim Bouton's ＜em＞Ball Four＜/em＞. Whether he's explaining what goes through a ballplayer's mind when he faces a fastball in the chapter "My Face Was Crushed by a Bowling Ball Going 90mph," detailing bizarre rituals and superstitions performed by some of the game's greatest players, or taking us into the locker room to see what transpires in a Major League clubhouse, Kurkjian's tales are at times hilarious, other times horrifying, yet always entertaining.＜br /＞ Kurkjian has spoken to some of the greatest ballplayers ever over the years and they have revealed details about themselves and the game they love with a candor that readers won't find anywhere else. Filled with memorable anecdotes, this is an essential book for baseball fans.＜br /＞ "Mostly humorous anecdotes collected on the baseball beat, but the standout chapter is a serious examination of the element of fear in the game. . . . Kurkjian also has a wonderful chapter on baseball's unsung heroes, the scouts, underpaid lifers who travel thousands of backroad miles per year to find the next-best version of Mickey Mantle or Roger Clemens . . . Even as they savor every word, readers will be jealous: Why can't we love our jobs as much as this guy does?" ー ＜em＞Booklist＜/em＞＜br /＞ "Kurkjian has collected more delightful and insightful stories than anyone since Casey Stengel." ーGeorge F. Will, #1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞?bestselling author of ＜em＞Men at Work＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Parisian Bob Caruthers Baseball's First Two-Way Star【電子書籍】[ Dave Heller ]

＜p＞Before Shohei Ohtani and Babe Ruth there was Robert Lee "Parisian Bob" Caruthers (1865-1911). A wunderkind pitcher and right fielder known throughout the country, he was the star on the mound for five league championships in 10 years, and one of two players in history--along with Ruth--to lead the Major Leagues in ERA+ (adjusted earned run average) and OPS+ (on-base plus slugging plus).＜/p＞ ＜p＞Coming from a wealthy family, Caruthers had something other players didn't--leverage. This resulted in several holdouts, including one which took him to Europe. This first full-length biography rediscovers one of baseball's most interesting characters and first two-way stars.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Cage Rat Lessons from a Life in Baseball by the Yankees Hitting Coach【電子書籍】[ Kevin Long ]

＜p＞The Hitting Coach for the New York Yankees, Kevin Long trains power-hitters in the fine art of hitting a baseball wellーa talent the legendary Ted Williams once called, "the most difficult skill in sport." In ＜em＞Cage Rat＜/em＞, the man who helps sharpen the mechanics of such superstars as Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Alex Rodriguez shares the expertise he honed over his more than two decades in the game as both player and coach. With an introduction by Alex Rodriguez and an Afterword by Robinson Cano, ＜em＞Cage Rat＜/em＞ is an indispensable guide to hitting, filled with practical advice, fascinating behind-the-scenes action, and an enduring, inspiring love for the Great American Pastime.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】野球．人生2：職棒教頭列傳【電子書籍】[ 曾文誠 ]

＜p＞＜strong＞當教練最需要的是什麼？是運籌帷幄的作戰腦袋？井然有序的管理方法？抑或是長袖善舞的人際關係？＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞【曾公與中職傳奇教頭的對話】＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 曾公與陳瑞振、?忠義、劉榮華、陳威成、呂文生、郭泰源、?復連、趙士強、杜福明、王俊郎、林仲秋、江仲豪、李來發、鄭昆吉、宋宦勳、王光輝、徐生明等17位總教練訪談，不只記?了許多動人的故事，這些教練敘?過往時最真實的情緒，也在曾公筆下格外栩栩如生。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞【不成敗論英雄，一本寫「人」的書】＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 不同的教練就有不同的故事，在這本書裡，?不會看到冰冷的球隊戰績，就是想?故事而已。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞【如影集般精采的特殊寫作風格】＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 曾公根據?位教練的感覺，採用不同的寫作風格書寫，讀起來會深覺像在看影音平台那一部部影集般精彩。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞【專文推薦】＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞●江奕昌／肌力與體能教練、球評＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 透過曾公的文字，彷彿這些棒球界的大前輩們就坐在我們身邊，訴?著一個又一個精彩的棒球故事。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞●楊東遠／運動視界主編＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 這洋洋灑灑令球迷們看到保證會肅然起敬的總教練專訪名單，我相信也只有曾公是最適合記?下這一切珍貴訪談的不二人選。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞●劉祖寧／知本老爺酒店總經理＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 我認為這是一本不只是讓棒球迷想看的書，應該也是一本?得管理者?讀的書，如果?是棒球迷又是管理者，那就太棒了！＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞●盧建彰／導演＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 只有曾公在這時間點，能做這事，沒他就沒人，也就不會有這事了。＜br /＞ 無論誰以後出再多錢，都不可能，都無法發生，都只能喟嘆，只能苦笑。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞【精彩?容】＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞●「打」代表的意義，八年過去，那一拳的威力還在！──第一次接總教練就上手的陳瑞振＜br /＞ ●空前恐怕也是?後的「總教練代打滿貫砲」！──眼睛長在頭頂上的?忠義＜br /＞ ●中華職棒?史所有爭議判決的前三名！──怒?裁判的陳威成＜br /＞ ●一場比賽下來失誤最多的就是總教練。──信任野球的呂文生＜br /＞ ●神怎麼可能落入人間成為凡人，變成總教練?？──忠於自己的郭泰源＜br /＞ ●只有不穿球服的人，才會?一直揮棒就好，反正輸了也不用負責。──點到嘆為觀止的?復連＜br /＞ ●場上不同位置都能做到最好的杜福明，卻唯獨沒有表現在總教練上？──如電影般棒球生涯的杜福明＜br /＞ ●爭議的「楓康、勇壯、楓康、勇壯」調度，「王俊郎到底?不?棒球？」──依舊愛棒球的王俊郎＜br /＞ ●「全台灣誰不知道?是王光輝?？」──「萬人迷！」王光輝＜br /＞ ●「好的教練是?況未發生前就想好所有應變的方式」──「一輩子的棒球人」徐生明＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Hall of Name Baseball's Most Magnificent Monikers from 'The Only Nolan' to 'Van Lingle Mungo' and More【電子書籍】[ D.B. FIRSTMAN ]

＜p＞Paying homage to some of the great “names” in the history of this great game.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each player profile within has the following:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞general demographic information (name they played under, their full name at birth, date of birth/death, years active in the majors, positions played, etc.)＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞etymology/definition of each part of their given name＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞baseball biography (generally, how they made it to the majors, what they did while they were there)＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞best day (a recap of a great day in their major league career)＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞the wonder of his name (why his name is memorable)＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞not to be confused with (names that sound and/or look like the player’s name)＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞fun anagrams (anagrams of their given names, just because)＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞ephemera (factoids, tidbits, trivia about the player, details regarding their parents, their family and their life after baseball)＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Mike Trout: The Inspirational Story Behind One of Baseball's Greatest Players【電子書籍】[ Andrew McKay ]

＜p＞Learn about the awe-inspiring journey of one the greatest baseball superstars, Mike Trout; his early life, amazing achievements and fun facts about him. This book will help you to become familiar with this amazing superstar and will no doubt motivate you too to work hard at your dreams.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Oscar Charleston The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player【電子書籍】[ Jeremy Beer ]

＜p＞2020 SABR Seymour Medal＜br /＞ 2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year＜/p＞ ＜p＞Buck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of Black America’s most popular figures. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a long career spanning from 1915 to 1954, Charleston played against, managed, befriended, and occasionally fought men such as Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Lefty Grove, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Jesse Owens, Roy Campanella, and Branch Rickey. He displayed tremendous power, speed, and defensive instincts along with a fierce intelligence and commitment to his craft. Charleston’s competitive fire sometimes brought him trouble, but more often it led to victories, championships, and profound respect.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While Charleston never played in the Major Leagues, he was a trailblazer who became the first Black man to work as a scout for a Major League team when Branch Rickey hired him to evaluate players for the Dodgers in the 1940s. From the mid?1920s on, he was a player?manager for several clubs. In 1932 he joined the Pittsburgh Crawfords and would manage the club many consider the finest Negro League team of all time, featuring five future Hall of Famers, including himself, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Judy Johnson, and Satchel Paige.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Charleston’s combined record as a player, manager, and scout makes him the most accomplished figure in Black baseball history. His mastery of the quintessentially American sport under the conditions of segregation revealed what was possible for Black achievement, bringing hope to millions. ＜em＞Oscar Charleston＜/em＞ introduces readers to one of America’s greatest and most fascinating athletes.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。