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“Though many books have been published on the birds of India, this one is remarkable for its splendid photographs in various moods and actions.” –Sanctuary Asia magazine.

Awarded Best Produced Paperback Book of 2006 by the Federation of Indian Publishers, this pocket-sized photographic book makes accurate identification of more common birds in the field possible. The photographs, all taken in the wild and India, clearly show the birds often with a variety of plumages while the text details the life of these colourful creatures. There is also a personal introduction to the experience of birding in India with reference to relevant books and websites. Ideal for any visitor to the Indian subcontinent.

“Though many books have been published on the birds of India, this one is remarkable for its splendid photographs in various moods and actions.” –Sanctuary Asia magazine.

Birds of India: Including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Mammals of India

This slim volume by Menon (executive director, Wildlife Trust of India) contains an extraordinary amount of information. Intended as a field guide for the nonprofessional, it fulfills that role well. — Choice

This is an excellent and much needed modern guide. It might not be detailed enough for a serious researcher, but it is great for the visitor. It is easy to use, with a lot of quality information packed into a book that only measures 21.5 x 14 x 1 cms. . . . Buy the book and visit India soon. — Roy John, Canadian Field Naturalist

Mammals of India is . . . a useful introduction to the large variety of mammals inhabiting the Indian subcontinent and the waters around its shores. For first-time visitors it provides a taste of the mammalian fauna of the country and where specific animals might be expected to be found. I know of no other pocket guide that fills this niche. — James A. Matteoni, Discovery

The vast and beautiful Indian subcontinent is home to an incredibly rich diversity of mammals, including mighty tigers, elephants, and rhinos, as well as primates, pandas, hyenas, and many more. Mammals of India is the most comprehensive and field-ready illustrated guide to Indian mammals available. It covers 400 species–virtually every mammal known to exist in India–and includes more than 350 full-color photographs as well as 85 color distribution maps for easy reference to India’s largest and most majestic species. The detailed text, written by one of India’s leading wildlife authorities, describes key identification features, biometrics, behavior, and status. There’s also an invaluable section on similar species for hard-to-identify mammals such as bats and rodents. This durable and user-friendly photographic guide is designed especially for use in the field, but it’s also the ideal book for armchair adventurers.

Covers 400 species–virtually every mammal known to exist in India
Includes more than 350 color photographs
Provides an authoritative text describing key identification features and more
Features 85 color distribution maps
Designed especially for field use

Mammals of India (Princeton Field Guides)

Shane Murphy, PhD, is one of the nation’s leading sport psychologists, with expertise in performance excellence, competitiveness, and teamwork. He is currently assistant professor at Western Connecticut State University. Murphy served as a sport psychologist to the U.S. Olympic team at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, the U.S. Olympic team at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, and the 1996 U.S. slalom canoe and kayak teams in Atlanta. In addition, he was sport psychology consultant to the U.S. snowboard team from 1999 to 2002. For seven years he worked for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) as head of its sport psychology department and later as the associate director of its sport science and technology division.

Murphy is a popular speaker and author of the best-selling book The Achievement Zone: An 8-Step Guide to Peak Performance in All Arenas of Life. He has appeared on many television and radio programs on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR. He also has had articles containing or referring to his work in USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, and other major publications. He is a former president of the division of sport and exercise psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP).

Murphy lives in Trumbull, Connecticut, with his wife, Annemarie, and two children, Bryan and Theresa.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
John F. Eliot, PhD, is the director of sport psychology in the department of kinesiology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His areas of specialization include performance enhancement, management consulting, and rehabilitation. Eliot has worked with a wide range of sports teams, including the Houston Astros, Philadelphia Eagles, San Antonio Spurs, and Chicago White Sox, along with numerous health care and business clients.

Chris Harwood, PhD, is a lecturer in applied sport psychology at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He is a BASES-accredited and BOA- registered sport psychologist whose research focuses on achievement motivation in sport, social psychology of elite youth sport, and performance-enhancement interventions. Harwood has served as a consultant to the Nottingham Forest Soccer Club, Lawn Tennis Association, English Cricket Board, the Football Association, and the Youth Sport Trust, plus a variety of other national governing bodies in UK sport.

Cal Botterill, PhD, is a health and performance psychology professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He has served as a consultant to seven Canadian Olympic teams, five NHL Hockey hockey teamsincluding the 1994 Stanley Cup champion the New York Rangersand numerous corporations such as Coca-Cola and Great-West Life Assurance Company. Cal has authored hundreds of articles, books, videos, and international presentations.

Bruce D. Hale, PhD, is an associate professor of kinesiology at Penn State University, Berks-Lehigh Valley College in Reading, Pennsylvania. His areas of specialization include sport and exercise psychology and educational sport psychology. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP) and has been a performance-enhancement consultant to hundreds of college, professional, and elite national teams. Hale has worked with USA Wrestling, the British Biathlon, USRowing, TAC, and USA Rugby.

Mitch Abrams, PsyD, is president and founder of Learned Excellence for Athletes, a sport psychology consulting company; an adjunct faculty member of Fairleigh Dickinson University; and director of inpatient psychology at Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey. He specializes in developing programs for athletes to improve performance through emotion management. Abrams is a member of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) division of exercise and sport psychology and the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP).

Jim Loehr, EdD, is chairman and CEO of LGE Performance Systems, a training company specializing in performance enhancement for professionals and athletes. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP), and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Loehr has worked with a wide range of teamsthe United States Tennis Association (USTA), Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), International Tennis Federation (ITF), and Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA)as well as professional athletes from the NBA, NFL, NHL, PGA, and LPGA, wrote 13 books, received numerous awards for his contributions in sport psychology, and contributes regularly to a wide variety of sports and business publications.

Tracy L. Veach, EdD, is a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Internal Medicine at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He works with individual athletes and teams in performance enhancement and integrative health. He has consulted with a wide range of athletes at high school, collegiate, and national team levels in football, basketball, swimming, track and field, and equestrian sports. Veach also served as a sport consultant to a world-record-setting U.S. sports parachute team.

Charles H. Brown, PhD, is director of FPS Performance, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based company specializing in performance enhancement of athletes, performing artists, and business professionals. He has worked with athletes at every level, specializing in the contextual factors that impact performance, athletes’ relationships, and work-life balance of elite performers. Brown is a consultant certified by the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP), a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sport psychology registry, and a member of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.

Sean C. McCann, PhD, is the head of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) sport psychology department. He works directly with teams and coaches at the U.S. Olympic Training Center and has traveled with the last five Olympic teams as a sport psychologist. McCann writes extensively about sport psychology in several outlets, including refereed journals, book chapters, columns, brochures, and workbooks for Olympic athletes and coaches.

Bradley Hack, PhD, is the director of sport psychology for the department of athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an executive committee member of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) division of exercise and sport psychology. In 2003 he was appointed chairman of the division’s Presidential Task Force to establish national standards for sport psychology training, education, and experience for sport psychologists.

Mark B. Andersen, PhD, is an associate professor at the School of Human Movement, Recreation, and Performance at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in supervision, injury, exercise, quality of life, and chronic disease. Andersen has worked with athletes from a wide range of sports, including the Arizona State University Intercollegiate Athletics, Victorian Diving Association, and various other diving, swimming, track and field, wrestling, and golf teams. Andersen has been on the editorial boards of The Sport Psychologist, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, and the Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology.

David Tod is a PhD candidate at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, specializing in professional practice and performance enhancement. Tod has worked with the Northern Institute of the New Zealand Academy of Sport and with professional rugby unions and rugby league teams. He has also worked with athletes in numerous sports including international track and field, swimming, cricket, triathlon, cycling, and powerlifting.

Kirsten Peterson, PhD, is a member of the United States Olympic Committee’s (USOC) sport psychology staff, providing counseling and performance enhancement services to athletes and coaches of numerous Olympic, Paralympic, and Pan American sports. She has traveled as part of the USOC sport psychology staff for three Olympic teams. Peterson is a licensed psychologist, a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), and is a certified consultant through the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP).

Jerry R. May, PhD, is a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He developed and implemented the first official sport psychology program for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and has worked with such teams as the U.S. Alpine ski team (1980-92), U.S. national soccer team (1997-98), and the U.S. sailing team (1992-present), and athletes in sports ranging from soccer, golf, tennis, and basketball to skiing, sailing, biathlon, and powerlifting.

Clark Perry, PhD, is senior consultant psychologist at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and managing director of PST Systems, a performance enhancement and training company. He is a world leader in sport psychology, leadership, and team development, having worked closely with some of the world’s best athletes as a member of four Olympic Games, three Commonwealth Games, eight World Championships, five Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, and three Super 12 Rugby Finals. Perry has served as senior psychologist to the Australian Olympic Swim Team, Australian Cycling, Triathlon Australia, Australian Baseball, ACT Brumbies, and the Australian Wallabies.

Mark Anshel, PhD, is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in the department of health, physical education, and recreation. His areas of research and writing have included coping with stressful events in sport and the use of steroids and other banned drugs among competitive athletes. …

Athletes’ physiques and conditioning levels have advanced significantly in the past decade. Now, it’s time for their mental prowess to catch up.

The Sport Psych Handbook makes significant performance improvement possible through training the mind to parallel the body’s enhanced development. Experts covering each facet of the mental game present research-based, field-tested approaches to enhance individual and team performance. More specifically, this comprehensive guide will give athletes breakthrough methods to do the following:

-Optimize inner drive for training and competition

-Maintain emotional and mental control for unwavering focus

-Improve communication skills for better leadership and teamwork

-Avoid and overcome slumps, injuries, and other challenges to a successful season
Complement your physical skills with sharper mental skills. Make The Sport Psych Handbook part of your training arsenal, and start performing to your potential.

The Sport Psych Handbook

Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life

Dr. Lardons book is without gimmicks or motivational hyperbole. It is the dictum that true champions follow.
Eric Heiden, five-time Olympic gold medal-winning speed skater

The first research-based program to offer concise, clear ways to realize your best performance.

As a therapist, physician, and mental coach, Dr. Michael Lardon has dedicated his career to helping athletes understand and better achieve peak performance. In Finding Your Zone, he shares with readers what hes discovered about reaching the state in which thoughts and actions are occurring in complete synchronicity, and how this state is accessible to all, not just the few.

In ten key lessonsillustrated by personal anecdotes from his clientsLardon teaches readers how to access the zone not only in sports but in all aspects of their lives, by understanding how to:

Transform desire into will
Channel emotions to victory
Trust instincts and keep it simple
Conquer fear through acceptance
Perform under pressure

Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life

Korr carefully explores labor-management dealings involving major league players and team owners during a crucial two-decade imbalance. The author sketches the stark imbalance that existed in that relationship until the 1960s, when Judge Robert Cannon and Marvin Miller came to represent the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA). Cannon deferred to baseball moguls, as players like Robin Roberts and Jim Bunning courageously battled for such elementary rights as improved bullpens and toilet facilities and better lighting for night contests. Miller’s appointment as the MLBPA’s full-time executive director in 1966 proved crucial, but Korr (West Ham United: The Making of a Football Club) challenges many assumptions about the labor leader. Rather than manipulating the players, Miller frequently felt compelled to respond to their greater militancy. Notwithstanding embittered attacks by sportswriters and owners alike, Miller generally remained calm and thoughtful, even prescient at times. Korr discusses how first Curt Flood and then Ted Simmons, Andy Messersmith, and Dave McNally challenged the owners’ contractual leverage, which eventually led to free agency. A lengthy strike in 1981 proved the union’s toughest test but kept its winning streak intact. For general libraries. [With another work stoppage a strong possibility, this book may circulate well among fans. Ed.] R.C. Cottrell, California State Univ., Chic.
- R.C. Cottrell, California State Univ., Chico
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By the time this review is published, the 2002 major-league baseball season may have ended prematurely, the victim of a labor dispute between millionaire players and billionaire owners. Korr puts labor issues and baseball in perspective with this history of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1960 to 1981, when the union succeeded in overturning the century-old “reserve” clause, which bound a player to his original team for life. The reserve system had worked well for owners, keeping the minimum salary to seven thousand dollars in 1966, and giving players virtually no bargaining power. Enter former steelworkers union man Marvin Miller, who, over the next decade and a half, challenged the reserve clause in the courts and in the equally important venue of public opinion. Korr tells the story of these tumultuous years vividly, helped along by interviews with most of the principals. An insightful foreword by broadcaster Bob Costas provides additional context. An engagingly written, carefully researched study of the forces that have shaped the National Pastime into the game it has become today. Wes Lukowsky
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The first book to utilize the files, letters, and correspondence of the Major League Baseball Player’s Association, The End of Baseball As We Knew It replays the much-storied transformation of power from management to players that set the standard for labor relations not just in baseball but in all professional sports. Charles P. Korr also draws on interviews with ballplayers, journalists, and labor executives to construct this insider’s view of the most successful sports union’s formative years.

The End of Baseball As We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-81 (Sport and Society)

Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting

“The author spent a year with the Phillies” scouts when they were arguably the best judges of raw talent in the major leagues. The often hard lives of baseball”s underpaid hunter-gatherers are rendered in lively detail.”Sports Illustrated (Sports Illustrated )

“A fascinating look at the world of the baseball scout . . . some of the best baseball tall tales youll ever read.”Wall Street Journal (Wall Street Journal )

“The scouts who seek out major league prospects are like explorers, wandering the countrys amateur diamonds in the hope of finding a treasureor a raw talent that can be turned into a treasure. A lot of what romance remains in baseball centers on this perennial quest, and Kerrane . . . captures it in this wonderfully affectionate book.”People (People )

“This study [is] mesmerizing, for it deals with getting the most, pound-per-dollar, for the goods: young baseball flesh. . . . That baseball is a business has never been made so clear. Both narrative and characters are engaging, and Kerrane . . . writes with passionate clarity.”Library Journal (Library Journal )

“One of the best baseball books to hit the shelves in recent memory . . . the story of the men behind the muscle mart . . . Kerrane scrutinizes this sometimes frantic, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes inspiring world. . . . For those in the stands, Dollar Sign offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at Americas national pastime.”Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Inquirer )

“One of baseball literatures most noble and enjoyable works.”Diamond Classics (Diamond Classics ) –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

With a new epilogue covering the late 1990s, this book takes a look at the world of baseball scouting. Kevin Kerrane makes clear the point that baseball is big business.

Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting (Fireside Sports Classics)

“Intelligent, observational, and uplifting – you won’t be able to put it down.” SPORT “Throughout the book he comes across as refreshingly different to the stereotypical Premiership player, making this a cut above the average footballer’s memoir. Thoughtful and entertaining.” — Graham Bean SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

Brad Friedel is one of the most successful American players in Premier League history, making more than 250 appearances, having joined Liverpool in 1997 before moving to Blackburn Rovers in November 2000. He won 82 caps for the USA before retiring from international football in 2005.

Why was Liverpool like a living football museum? How do you improve the probability of saving a penalty? What’s the difference between an ‘improver’ manager and an ‘importer’ manager? Is the sigmoid curve the most important tool a footballer can have? And what can we learn from Victorian philanthropists? These are just some of the questions that Brad Friedel addresses in his intelligent, observational style as he thinks outside the box and takes us across continents and inside football in a way that only he can. Goalkeepers have an unusual view of the world, but Brad Friedel’s is more unusual than most. Not surprising, considering he travelled nearly one million miles in a five-year battle to win a work permit to play in the Premier League. More than this, he got an education. First as a student at UCLA and then travelling the world earning $35 a day against the likes of Brazil and Argentina; living and playing in Denmark, Turkey and the USA; and developing his own ideas and views for his football academy. This uplifting and inspirational story takes you deep into the world of Premier League football and in doing so puts the glamour into true perspective. Brad Friedel has little time for the materialistic culture which surrounds professional football. Because he believes in loyalty, he has turned down lucrative contracts and took a 60 per cent pay cut to join Blackburn Rovers. Yet he is one to grasp opportunity and he made a surprise move to Aston Villa at the age of 37. He is a visionary footballing philanthropist who has more interest in changing the world than changing his image. This book shows there is another way for footballers.

“Intelligent, observational, and uplifting – you won’t be able to put it down.” SPORT “Throughout the book he comes across as refreshingly different to the stereotypical Premiership player, making this a cut above the average footballer’s memoir. Thoughtful and entertaining.” — Graham Bean SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

Thinking Outside the Box

Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World’s Most Popular Sport

The Herald(UK)
Kuper always listens, but only rarely quotes verbatim. The [athlete] is a subject rather than a talking head. This approach produces an excellent result his sureness of purpose allows him to devote his energies to producing something regularly insightful and sometimes very, very funny.

FourFourTwoMagazine(UK)
Hugely enjoyableKupers knowledge of the global game is second only to the vitality of his writing.The New Yorker, Book Bench Blog
[S]prightly, skeptical, and vastly informative Style, in soccer as in prose, is less the product of personal expression than of poise, discipline, patience, and infinite care. . . . Watching Messi or Lampard (or any of the players included in Soccer Men) after reading Kuper is a bit like going back to Shakespeares sonnets after reading Helen Vendlers book on them. He turns us into more alert, more intelligent, more grateful spectators of the beautiful game.

Mother Jones
Kupers effortless wit and keen sense of irony make Soccer Men well worth the read.

Alan Black, San Francisco Chronicle
Simon Kupers new book, Soccer Men, gains insight into the personalities of some of soccers most important players and coaches with a few extras from outside the sport thrown in.Kuper is a rare breed of writer. His international upbringing conditioned his understanding of variety in the worlds most popular sport. His soccer networks across national boundaries and his access inside the game are impressive. There is no better anthropologists eye analyzing the game today.

Globe and Mail (Canada)
Eccentric but vastly enjoyable Kuper observes, analyzes, takes notes at a press conference, reads the players autobiography and writes deftly incisive portraits. Its a wise approach; most pro sports players have little to say and its the doing that makes them interesting, not their explanation of it.

Library Journal
Hot on the excitement over the 2011 womens World Cup comes Kupers latest soccer gem Kupers easy interview style hides few flaws and creates some memorable moments… Kuper is one of the worlds leading soccer authors, which reinforces the highly recommended verdict here. With appeal beyond soccer fans.

ESPN Soccernet
Kuper offers a comprehensive critique of the modern footballer and tones down the holy distinctions, unreal expectations, and tabloid sensationalisms that we have reserved for the games world-beaters. Soccer Men finely demonstrates that the characters who occupy the highest pedestal in footballs collective imagination are ordinary men and successful professionals who all grew up playing and watching a lot of football. . . . Soccer Men is a significant collection of profiles precisely because it provides a contemporary, realistic portrait of the men who dominate our most beloved sport.

Publishers Weekly
[Kuper employs] eloquent criticism and biting wit in profiling everyone from legendary Argentine player/partier turned national coach Diego Maradona (the fat cigar smoker and former cocaine addict with the geriatrics heart) to David Beckham (an Andy Warhol painting come to life) to baseball executive Billy Beane, whose moneyball tactics have found their way into professional soccer.

Booklist
[Kuper] has both keen insight into the game and a gift for getting it across.

Financial Times
No one else writing in the UK has tracked the careers of footballers and managers in Kupers fashion. He knows and cares about their family backgrounds, education and early years. He also has a rare international perspective, drawn from decades of travel around the continent and the ability to speak and read in several tongues. The chapter dissecting the ghosted autobiographies of Messrs Carragher, Cole, Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney is a masterful piece of literary criticism.

Time Out, UK
In his latest book, footballs finest writer [Kuper] turns his attention to succinct profiles of the great and good As well as captivating profiles, there are some revealing interviews.

The Independent, UK
What is exceptional is Kupers insightful view of their [footballers] world and the managers who attempt to control it [Kupers] judgements are often revisionist, always well argued. If youre looking for sleaze and sensation, this isnt the book for you; but if stylish profiles written with wit and humour are your thing, you wont be disappointed.

The Irish Times, Ireland
[Kuper] has been an astute observer of the game at both club and international level. He has an anthropologists eye for the telling detail, he wields a dark, deadpan humour, and he writes like a dream.

Irish Examiner
Britains most respected football writer gets up close and personal with some of the gods of the beautiful game. Kuper eschews titillating gossip for a look at how these ordinary men operate in an extraordinary, closeted world, often bringing everyday worries to their workplace.

Birmingham Post (UK)
Kupers assured hand enables him to examine footballers, managers, even stadium architects and football-loving actors from a refreshingly unique perspective. He is less interested in regurgitating predictable, PR-disinfected football-speak and more focused on treating his interviewees as subjects in their own right. It makes for a fascinating read which leaves you wondering why has no-one tried this beforeKuper succeeds in adding a classy continental polish to an extremely pleasurable read which leaves the reader wanting more.

STV Blog (Scotland)
[The Football Men] profiles some of the best players of the modern era, but with an insight few can match.

The Boston Globe
Soccer fans and fans of sharp writing and quick, dead-on profiles can be grateful that Kuper didnt earlier tire of the chase.

Alan Black, San Francisco Chronicle
Simon Kupers new book, Soccer Men, gains insight into the personalities of some of soccers most important players and coaches with a few extras from outside the sport thrown in.Kuper is a rare breed of writer. His international upbringing conditioned his understanding of variety in the worlds most popular sport. His soccer networks across national boundaries and his access inside the game are impressive. There is no better anthropologists eye analyzing the game today.

Bleacher Report (online)
Cynical yet truly brilliant.

Simon Kupers New York Times bestseller Soccernomics pioneered a new way of looking at soccer through meticulous empirical analysis and incisiveand witty commentary. Kuper now leaves the numbers and data behind to explore the heart and soul of the worlds most popular sport in the new, extraordinarily revealing Soccer Men.

Soccer Men goes behind the scenes with soccers greatest players and coaches. Inquiring into the genius and hubris of the modern game, Kuper details the lives of giants such as Arsne Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Jorge Valdano, Lionel Messi, Kak, and Didier Drogba, describing their upbringings, the soccer cultures they grew up in, the way they play, and the baggage they bring to their relationships at work.

From one of the great sportswriters of our time, Soccer Men is a penetrating and surprising anatomy of the figures that define modern soccer.
Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses, and Neurotics Who Dominate the World’s Most Popular Sport

“My mom gave a couple of dollars to a woman who was in desperate need of milk for her family. In return, the woman gave my mom a gunnysack full of things, including a pair of skates. My sister Edna grabbed one and I got the other. We went outside and push-glided around an ice pond. When Edna got cold and took her skate off, I put it on my other foot.” So begins the story of one of the greatest–and toughest–men to ever play the game of ice hockey, Gordie Howe. Or try Bobby Hull: “We won the Stanley Cup in 1961 when I was 22 years old… but I never did drink out of the Stanley Cup. As the festivities began, I started drinking beer out of the owner’s son Mike Wirtz’s dirty old felt hat. I got sick as a dog and had to go to bed instead of celebrating that night.”

For the Love of Hockey collects the personal stories of 91 of the game’s greatest players, stars such as Rocket Richard, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, and Mario Lemieux. With big, full-color action shots and the words of the players themselves, this is a heartfelt tribute to the most talented practitioners of a fast and furious sport.

Stunning visual and statistical record … Hockey All-Stars is the book to get or give. (Harvey Frommer SportsWritersDirect on foxsports.com )

An admirable scrapbook that will hold the attention of any hockey fan. (Globe and Mail )

Current and former NHL stars reveal significant moments of their careers. (USA Today )

Something to treasure. (London Free Press )

For the Love of Hockey appeals to hockey fans of all ages. The greatest hockey players of all time share vivid memories of the game they love, memories that are primarily joyful but occasionally heart-breaking — the dramatic overtime goals, the record-breaking games, the team camaraderie, the devastating trades and the career-ending injuries. Thrilling full-color photographs enhance the personal stories of players from such hockey legends as “Rocket” Richard, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky to current stars Steve Yzerman, Mario Lemieux and Patrick Roy. Told in the players’ own words, these stories are infused with the same skill, spirit, character and determination that carried each of these men to the heights of the National Hockey League and made hockey one of the most popular sports in the world.

“My mom gave a couple of dollars to a woman who was in desperate need of milk for her family. In return, the woman gave my mom a gunnysack full of things, including a pair of skates. My sister Edna grabbed one and I got the other. We went outside and push-glided around an ice pond. When Edna got cold and took her skate off, I put it on my other foot.” So begins the story of one of the greatest–and toughest–men to ever play the game of ice hockey, Gordie Howe. Or try Bobby Hull: “We won the Stanley Cup in 1961 when I was 22 years old… but I never did drink out of the Stanley Cup. As the festivities began, I started drinking beer out of the owner’s son Mike Wirtz’s dirty old felt hat. I got sick as a dog and had to go to bed instead of celebrating that night.”

For the Love of Hockey collects the personal stories of 91 of the game’s greatest players, stars such as Rocket Richard, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, and Mario Lemieux. With big, full-color action shots and the words of the players themselves, this is a heartfelt tribute to the most talented practitioners of a fast and furious sport.

For the Love of Hockey: Hockey Stars’ Personal Stories

The Greatest Hockey Stories Ever Told: The Finest Writers on Ice

The Game is acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written, and more than just a hockey book, it has become an enduring classic-;a reflective and provocative look at a life in hockey and at the game itself. Ken Dryden, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, is recognized as one of the greatest goalies ever to play the game. More than that, he is one of hockey’s most intelligent and insightful commentators. In The Game , Dryden captures the essence of the sport and what it means to all hockey fans. He gives us vivid and affectionate portraits of the characters-;Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson, Guy Lapointe, Serge Savard, and coach Scotty Bowman among them-;that made the Canadiens of the 1970s one of the greatest hockey teams in history. But beyond that, Dryden reflects on life on the road, in the spotlight, and on the ice, offering up a rare inside look at the game of hockey, and a profoundly personal memoir. This commemorative edition marks the 20th anniversary of The Game ‘s original publication, and features a new chapter from Ken Dryden, reflecting on the past two decades in hockey. Take a journey back to the heart and soul of the game with this timeless hockey classic. THE GAME 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION “The sports book of the year, or maybe the decade, or maybe the century.” -; The Globe and Mail “A work of art that defines and represents our game.” -;Hockey News “[Dryden] has written a very special book, possibly the best [hockey book] I have ever read. His affectionate yet realistic portrait of the players is unrivalled in hockey writing.” -;Mordecai Richler “A book about Ken Dryden, about Quebec, about the rest of Canada, and most of all, a loving book about a special sport.” -;New York Times “An enduring classic, Ken Dryden’s The Game has lost none of its luster since its original publication in 1983, and remains the one book every hockey fan must know…This backstage look at one of the best books ever published on any sport.” -;David Gowdey “A [hockey] book so rare that there is actually nothing to compare it to.” -;Scott Young Sports Illustrated: One of “The Top 100 Best Sports Books of All Time” (number nine). Top hockey book. Top Canadian sports book. Top book written solely by an athlete. University of Toronto Review: One of ” The Top 100 English-Canadian Books of the 20 th Century .”

Finally, hockey’s rabid fans have an anthology of their own, a showcase of writing as dynamic and diverse as the fastest sport itself.

The Greatest Hockey Stories Ever Told: The Finest Writers on Ice

Travel, Kittredge writes, “is a technique for staying in touch, a wake-up call, not a diversion but a responsibility.” A renowned fiction writer and essayist last heard in book form in The Nature of Generosity (2000), he sums up his 20-plus years of exploring and opening his Oregon-bred heart to the Southwest in a quietly powerful blend of natural and human history. A region of stark beauty riven by violent injustice along the border with Mexico, and rendered ecologically precarious as the desert is asked to support an ever-swelling population, the Southwest exemplifies resiliency and toughness, inspiring Kittredge to ruminate over what constitutes a homeland and how such interweavings of place and feeling change over time. Humble and frank in his role as both outsider and one of many writers stoked to eloquence by the grit and grace of southwestern life, including the trailblazer Edward Abbey, Charles Bowden, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Simon Ortiz, Kittredge is an ideal guide not only to the complexities of this evocative homeland but also to the psyche itself. Donna Seaman
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William Kittredge has published fiction and essays in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Outside, TriQuarterly, North American Review, and Iowa Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a professor of creative writing at the University of Montana, Kittredge’s works include Hole in the Sky: A Memoir, Owning it All: Essays, and the story collections The Van Gogh Fields and We Are Not in This Together.

For part of each of the last twenty years, much-loved essayist and fiction writer William Kittredge has ventured to the storied desert landscape of the Southwest and immersed himself in the region’s wide-ranging wonders and idiosyncrasies. Here Kittredge brings all this experience to bear as he takes us on a rewarding tour of the territory that runs from Santa Fe to Yuma, and from the Grand Canyon on south through Phoenix and Tucson to Nogales. It is a region where urban sprawl abuts desert expanse, where Native American pueblos compete for space with agribusiness cotton plantations, and where semi-defunct mining towns slowly give way to new-age hippie gardening and crafts enclaves.

As part-time resident and full-time observer, William Kittredge acquaints us with one of the country’s most vital and perpetually evolving regions. Populated with die-hard desert rats on the banks of the Colorado, theoretical physicists in Albuquerque, Hopi mothers and their daughters, and renegade punk-rock kids sleeping in the streets,Southwestern Homelandsis a book as much about the legacies of a territory’s colorful past as it is about the alternately exciting and daunting complexities of its immediate future.

Southwestern Homelands (National Geographic Directions)

A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories

“Tapahonsos newest poetry collection, A Radiant Curve, confirms her place near the top of any list in American literature.” Studies in American Indian Literatures “Tapahonso celebrates the everyday acts, rituals, and stories that draw people together across the years and across the distances of cultural dispersion.” Library Journal

In this sixth collection of stories and verse, award-winning writer Luci Tapahonso finds sacredness in everyday life. Viewing a sunset in a desert sky, listening to her granddaughter recount how she spent her day, or visiting her mother after her father’s passing, she finds traces of her own memories, along with echoes of the voices of her Navajo ancestors. The collection also includes an audio CD of the author reading aloud and her voice is warm and inviting, like the simmering soup and blue corn meal of her childhood.

These engaging words draw us into a workaday world that, magically but never surprisingly, has room for the Diyin Dine , Old Salt Woman, and Dawn Boy. When she describes her grandsons First Laugh Ceremonyexplaining that it was originally performed for White Shell Girl, who grew up to be Changing Womanher account enriches us and we long to hear more. Tapahonso weaves the Navajo language into her work like she weaves the first four rows of black yarn into a rug she is making for my little grandson, who inherited my fathers name: Hastiin Tstah Naaki Bs.

As readers, we find that we too are surrounded by silent comfort, held lovingly in the confident hands of an accomplished writer who has a great deal to tell us about life.

A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories (Sun Tracks)

Amanda E. Doyle is an ardent St. Louis supporter and resident with more than a decade of experience in promoting the city to visitors. She lives with her family in Tower Grove Heights, and regularly plots her alternate lives in cool neighborhoods around the area.

Locals know it, and newcomers learn it fast: we live in one of America’s great cities. Beyond the obvious and outside your own daily routine, wouldn’t it be great to have an insider’s view into all the great neighborhoods around town? Finally, you can. With the arrival of “Finally! A Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis, By and For St. Louisans, Neighborhood By Neighborhood,” you can get the skinny on exploring our town, from the Metro East to the urban core to daytrips worth the drive. Folks often say St. Louis is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own character (and characters!); let this be your handbook to the highlights and hidden treasures of them all. Our opinionated overview points out the best dining, dives, shopping and gawking, from just-so touches for the home to cool gifts for kids to the no-sign bars and restaurants no tourist would ever find. Tidbits of local lore are sprinkled throughout: want to see where a young Steve McQueen filmed one of his first breakout roles? Get contact caffeination from a district of coffee roasters? Partake of an absinthe cocktail, spiked milkshake or salt-therapy session? Catch a drag show? Eat cheap pizza? Finally, you’ve got an in-the-know best friend at your fingertips.

Finally, A Locally Produced Guidebook to St. Louis by and for St. Louisans, Neighborhood by Neighborhood

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis: Including Sullivan, Potosi, and Farmington

Praise for previous edition.
” A perfect travel planning resource for hiker daytrips and excursions. … superbly presented and organized walker’s guidebook.”
“Midwest Book Review “

Mention St. Louis, and most people think of the famous arch. Residents and knowledgeable visitors appreciate the many outdoor recreational opportunities the Gateway to the West has to offer. With new hikes and updated text and maps, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis points hikers to the best outdoor trails and rambles within easy reach of the city. Whether walking in the footsteps of Louis and Clark, exploring amazing rock formation in the Pickle Springs Natural Area, or trekking along a portion of the longest rails-to-trails paths in the United States, hikers are sure to be amazed at the diversity of outdoor experiences awaiting them.
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: St. Louis: Including Sullivan, Potosi, and Farmington

“Reading this blurb is a form of inefficiency, because to know that this book is madly funny, full of wild invention, and definitively satirizes one of the most banal and loathsome of all American institutions, all you have to do is skip this blurb and open the book to any page. But if you’ve made it this far, it’s too late. Sorry for wasting your time. OPEN THE BOOK.”–George Saunders, author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia

“You will laugh yourself sad at this fake catalog, lovingly crafted from the finest comedy by a couple of brilliant, funny douchebags.”–Patton Oswalt

“The D.U.I. Mask really works!”–David Foster Wallace
“Not since the days of Not the New York Times and The Journal of Irreproducible Results has the sly, surprising parody of otherwise ignored cultural detritus seemed so sharp and overdue; not since the days of the actual feral child named Kasper Hauser has humor writing been so nimble, hungry, wiry, and covered with a fine, catlike fur.”–John Hodgman, author of Areas of My Expertise and contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

“SkyMaul provides great reading on a plane, particularly on those long flights, because I usually forget to bring a book. I was disappointed that some of the items were on back order and, I’m informed, may not be available at all. But the fact that the catalog is available means that THE TERRORISTS HAVE NOT WON!”–Fred Willard

“This is the funniest catalog I’ve ever read. And they didn’t even go with the old lady holding the giant ‘massager.’ Funny and classy.”–Joel Stein, LA Times

“This is the catalog that SHOULD be on every plane! A perfect absurdist comment on just how odd sky shopping truly is! I wish I’d had it on my last flight. Instead, I had to watch The Ice Princess.”–Nicole Parker, MADtv –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The funniest catalog in America. Guaranteed.

Let award-winning comedy troupe Kasper Hauser transport you into the sublime universe that is SkyMaul, where Banana-ganizers and Reality-Canceling Headphones coexist with Crack Pipe Chess Sets and Llamacycles. More than just a catalog parody, SkyMaulexplodes with razor-sharp wit, boundless creativity, and a keen eye for the absurd. This smart, edgy satire will earn your laughter again and again.

–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The funniest catalog in America. Guaranteed.

Let award-winning comedy troupe Kasper Hauser transport you into the sublime universe that is SkyMaul, where Banana-ganizers and Reality-Canceling Headphones coexist with Crack Pipe Chess Sets and Llamacycles. More than just a catalog parody, SkyMaul explodes with razor-sharp wit, boundless creativity, and a keen eye for the absurd. This smart, edgy satire will earn your laughter again and again.

“Reading this blurb is a form of inefficiency, because to know that this book is madly funny, full of wild invention, and definitively satirizes one of the most banal and loathsome of all American institutions, all you have to do is skip this blurb and open the book to any page. But if you’ve made it this far, it’s too late. Sorry for wasting your time. OPEN THE BOOK.”–George Saunders, author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia

“You will laugh yourself sad at this fake catalog, lovingly crafted from the finest comedy by a couple of brilliant, funny douchebags.”–Patton Oswalt

“The D.U.I. Mask really works!”–David Foster Wallace
“Not since the days of Not the New York Times and The Journal of Irreproducible Results has the sly, surprising parody of otherwise ignored cultural detritus seemed so sharp and overdue; not since the days of the actual feral child named Kasper Hauser has humor writing been so nimble, hungry, wiry, and covered with a fine, catlike fur.”–John Hodgman, author of Areas of My Expertise and contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

“SkyMaul provides great reading on a plane, particularly on those long flights, because I usually forget to bring a book. I was disappointed that some of the items were on back order and, I’m informed, may not be available at all. But the fact that the catalog is available means that THE TERRORISTS HAVE NOT WON!”–Fred Willard

“This is the funniest catalog I’ve ever read. And they didn’t even go with the old lady holding the giant ‘massager.’ Funny and classy.”–Joel Stein, LA Times

“This is the catalog that SHOULD be on every plane! A perfect absurdist comment on just how odd sky shopping truly is! I wish I’d had it on my last flight. Instead, I had to watch The Ice Princess.”–Nicole Parker, MADtv –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy from a Plane

Weddings of the Times: A Parody (Kasper Hauser Comedy Group)

Praise for Sky Maul:
Reading this blurb is a form of inefficiency, because to know that this book is madly funny, full of wild invention, and definitively satirizes one of the most banal and loathsome of all American institutions, all you have to do is skip this blurb and open the book to any page. But if youve made it this far, its too late. Sorry for wasting your time. OPEN THE BOOK.George Saunders, author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Pastoralia

You will laugh yourself sad at this fake catalog, lovingly crafted from the finest comedy by a couple of brilliant, funny douchebags.Patton Oswalt

The D.U.I. Mask really works!David Foster Wallace
Not since the days of Not the New York Times and The Journal of Irreproducible Results has the sly, surprising parody of otherwise ignored cultural detritus seemed so sharp and overdue; not since the days of the actual feral child named Kasper Hauser has humor writing been so nimble, hungry, wiry, and covered with a fine, catlike fur.John Hodgman, author of Areas of My Expertise and contributor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

SkyMaul provides great reading on a plane, particularly on those long flights, because I usually forget to bring a book. I was disappointed that some of the items were on back order and, Im informed, may not be available at all. But the fact that the catalog is available means that THE TERRORISTS HAVE NOT WON!Fred Willard

This is the funniest catalog Ive ever read. And they didnt even go with the old lady holding the giant massager. Funny and classy.Joel Stein, LA Times

This is the catalog that SHOULD be on every plane! A perfect absurdist comment on just how odd sky shopping truly is! I wish Id had it on my last flight. Instead, I had to watch The Ice Princess.Nicole Parker, MADtv

You are cordially invited to celebrate

A Parody of

The New York Times

Wedding Announcements

by

Kasper Hauser

Along with fully illustrated guides to:

Wedding-night sex,

Honeymoon hot spots,

Formalwear malfunctions,

and much, much more.

At four oclock in the Afternoon.

Or is it three oclock?

Didnt you bring the invitation?

Huh? Where the hell is the turnoff?

Back there. I think I saw a paper plate and some balloons.

What’s wrong?

I just need to eat something. I’m fine.

Remind me how we know these people?

In this collection, Kasper Hauser reminds us that a wedding announcement is a window into the most goofball daydream a couple can have about itself…. These are not parodies, but little human stories, full of want and hope, even when they involve falconry.

—from the foreword by John Hodgman

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Since 2000. Hammond, American Map, Langenscheidt Dictionaries, Insight Travel Guides, Delorme the famous names in the Langenscheidt family. These represent the most authoritative, up-to-date, and extensive travel and reference products available. In January 2003, the renowned Berlitz Publishing became part of the Langenscheidt Group. The Langenscheidt Publishing Group, the premier group of map and travel companies, offers over 4,000 North American and international street maps, road maps, atlases, language-learning, bilingual dictionaries, and travel-related products covering countries, cities, and languages in every continent. –This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

One of over 400 titles in the Insight series,

Insight Guide Tuscany. This 382-page book includes a section detailing Tuscany’s history, 6 features covering aspects of the region’s life and culture, ranging from its classic silver-grey olive groves to its simple rustic food, a visitor’s guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many stunning photographs and 16 maps.

Tuscany

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the well–documented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow. Elon’s taste buds lead her from one small-town restaurant to another. There she finds traditional dishes, whose recipes she records. Exploded Beans, garlic and herbs flavoring beans whose skins have burst open in the oven, offers an unusual side dish. Farro, an ancient grain undergoing a modern revival, appears in risotti and soups and in combination with other ingredients. Hot-pepper marmalade pairs with local sheep’s-milk cheeses. Rabbit and simple poultry dishes abound. Onions and polenta bake together to form a large tart for a first course. Many dishes will appeal to vegetarians looking for new tastes. Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Mark Knoblauch
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Each of the ten itineraries in this cookbook/guidebook takes readers through parts of Tuscany that still remain largely undiscovered and into the kitchens of more than fifty superb but little-known restaurants specializing in regional cuisinethose that are for the most part overlooked by tourists and known only to the locals. Each regional section begins with illuminating and absorbing explanations of what makes Tuscan cooking so unique: location, location, location. Youll read about a bean so beloved by a village that its been elevated to cult statusbut unknown a few kilometers down the road; an aboriginal baby lamb that is almost unknown outside of the Zeri valley; the endless array of vegetable tarts found nowhere in Tuscany but Lunigiana and Garfagnana. With this guide in hand, youll not only know where to dine but what to order when you get there.

In addition to 100 recipes, also included are nearby points of interest, descriptions and contact information for restaurants, trattorie, gourmet shops, wineries, olive oil producers, local markets, and regional food festivals, and how to find the monasteries, workshops, and artisans studios that offer local items ranging from herbal beauty products to traditional ceramics and handwoven linens.

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track

We learned that if we told this kid he couldnt do it, he was going to go ahead and show us that he could.

Pat Murphy, head baseball coach,

Arizona State University

Hes going to be an elite player every year because pitchers will always make the mistake of trying to throw fastballs by him.

Mike Lowell, third baseman, Boston Red Sox

During his brief career in the majors, Dustin Pedroia has already won several awards including being named the 2007 American League Rookie of the Year and the 2008 American League MVP. Pedroia ended the 2008 season with a .326 average with 17 home runs, 83 RBIs, and 20 stolen bases. He was tied for the MLB in hits with 213 and led the league in doubles (54), while leading the AL in runs scored (118). In December 2008, Pedroia signed a six-year contract extension with the Red Sox.

The inspirational story of Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroiaa giant talent in a small packagewho defied his critics to become one of the greatest players in the game today

Dustin Pedroia, at five feet seven inches and 170 pounds, is not the biggest, the strongest, or the fastest player in the game of baseball, but in just two years of major-league play he was named Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and helped the Boston Red Sox win a World Championship. At a time when steroid scandals dominate media coverage of Americas beloved pastime, Pedroia has proven to the world that a good baseball player is more than size and statistics. His success comes from the heart.

In Born to Play, Pedroia shares the story of his difficult and uplifting journey to prove himself at every turn. More than anything, his love of the game and desire to win, not just for himself but for his teammates, defines Pedroia as an athletebut his dedication, his perseverance, and of course, his monster swing have made him a beloved new symbol of baseball and offer hope for the future of Americas favorite game.

We learned that if we told this kid he couldnt do it, he was going to go ahead and show us that he could.

Pat Murphy, head baseball coach,

Arizona State University

Hes going to be an elite player every year because pitchers will always make the mistake of trying to throw fastballs by him.

Mike Lowell, third baseman, Boston Red Sox

Born to Play: My Life in the Game

Pujols: More Than the Game

Scott Lamb is director of research for the President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. A native of St. Louis, Scott has pastored churches in Alabama, Missouri, and Kentucky. He is a contributor to WORLD Magazines website and the Civil Religion forum of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He and his wife, Pearl, have five children and are members of Immanuel Baptist Church.

Tim Ellsworth is director of news and media relations at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, and author of God in the Whirlwind: Stories of Grace from the Tornado at Union University. He is also a frequent contributor to Baptist Press. He has previously worked as an editor, reporter, and high school social studies teacher. He and his wife, Sarah, have three children and are actively involved at Cornerstone Community Church. –This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

After a decade starring for the St. Louis Cardinals, Albert Pujols is already compared with names in the highest reaches of baseball’s pantheon: Ruth, Gehrig, Aaron, Mays.

Authors Scott Lamb and Tim Ellsworth spare no tale of this growing baseball legend, all the while accentuating “the unseen hand of divine providence” that has shaped the man Albert Pujols has become.

From the foreword by Joe Posnanski, Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated: How does Pujols find ways to keep getting better? Some of the secrets are in this fine book by Lamb and Ellsworth.

Mike Huckabee, 44th Governor of Arkansas: One thing about Pujols–he matches in his personal life the excellence that he demonstrates on the diamond. You will love this book and will love Pujols if you don’t already. You may never love the Cards like I do, but there’s hope for you!

Tommy Herr, St. Louis Cardinals’ 2nd baseman, 1979-1988: As a part of the great tradition of St. Louis Cardinals baseball, it is very gratifying to me to see a man of Albert’s character enjoy the success that he has achieved. His dedication to his craft and to God makes him the ultimate Hall of Famer.

Derrick Goold, baseball writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Lamb and Ellsworth peek behind the box scores, scrape beneath the statistics, and illuminate not just what drives Pujols in the batter’s box, but what inspires him beyond it.

Frank Pastore, former pitcher for Reds and Twins: Ellsworth and Lamb do a great job exposing the wonderful man beneath the uniform. Even if you’re not a baseball fan, you can’t help but fall in love with this quality guy.

Marvin Olasky, Editor-in-chief, World: …lucidly describes both the season-by-season baseball exploits of Pujols and the impact he’s having on some lives for eternity.

FLAME, hip-hop artist: You will walk away from this book encouraged in your faith as you read of Pujols’ steadfast commitment to God in the midst of obstacles.

Les Steckel, veteran NFL coach and Pres./CEO, Fellowship of Christian Athletes: … delivers a home run in this fascinating and well-documented story of a young boy who began playing baseball using milk cartons for baseball gloves and now uses his platform as baseball’s greatest player to proclaim the joy and strength he receives in walking with the Lord.

Pujols: More Than the Game