Fathers Of Football

Author : Keith Baker
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1785310267
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fathers of Football written by Keith Baker and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-overlooked story of a number of adventurous Britons who left their homeland before World War I to inspire and shape the growth of modern soccer in continental Europe and South America. Drawn from widely different backgrounds, their motivations and contributions were diverse-helping to form legendary clubs now supported by millions across the globe; bringing revolutionary changes to the way soccer was taught and played; and laying the foundations on which the game would continue to flourish. Full of entertaining accounts and anecdotes from the birth of the global game, Fathers of Football places the lives of these innovators soundly in historical and social context. They all left a deep and lasting impression on soccer in the countries they worked in; yet for too long Britain turned its back on their lessons and achievements. Even today they remain largely unknown-prophets more honored abroad than at home.

Author : Andrew H. Malcolm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Huddle written by Andrew H. Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a very personal book, a shared remembrance, about sports and sons and fathers, about youth and lost youth and teamwork - written by a former little boy who watches his own son captain a school football team. Huddle is about the ultimate home team: the touching story of three generations of one family linked by the game of football. Contrary to some popular notions, Huddle shows that modern male bonding is possible through play, not battle. Indeed, nowhere in this intimate account does anyone incite aggression with "Football is war." Football is, instead, life. The players here are boys. Their guides and mentors are men, who huddle with their eager, padded charges to pass on the rules of life through a game. The task at hand is doing your best, which, like as not, is better than you thought. From that beautifully simple formula comes highly complex behavior: cooperation, daring, open admissions of self-doubt, even creativity. Sometimes winning. Sometimes not." "But more importantly, this is a book about learning how to be a person, and how those lessons are passed from father to son, to son, to son. For the author, the process began on the blurry screen of a tiny black-and-white Dumont television in the 1950s with Ohio State - the good guys - defending their turf. Here was something new. No bats. No bases. It took Dad, the engineer, to disassemble this bizarre and foreign ritual in a kind of Socratic sports seminar. Before long, a young Andrew Malcolm had found his own way into the linebacking corps of the team at high school. And a generation later, other young Malcolm males take to familiar fields to begin the process anew. And so on."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Frank Berrios
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0385379250
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Football With Dad written by Frank Berrios and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informational LGB is also a touching tribute to the lessons we learn from our fathers! Every Sunday, a boy and his dad watch the big football game on TV, and then go outside to play it. In this simple introduction to the game, the emphasis is on playing safely and having fun.

Author : Stuart Stevens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172501
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Season written by Stuart Stevens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fathers, sons, and sports are enduring themes of American literature. Here, in this fresh and moving account, a son returns to his native South to spend a special autumn with his ninety-five-year-old dad, sharing the unique joys, disappointments, and life lessons of Saturdays with their beloved Ole Miss Rebels. Now, driving to and from the games, and cheering from the stands, they take stock of their lives as father and son, and as individuals, reminding themselves of their unique, complicated, precious bond. Poignant and full of heart, but also irreverent and often hilarious, The Last Season is a powerful story of parents and children and of the importance of taking a backward glance together while you still can.

Author : Benjamin Watson
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493404962
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Dad's Playbook written by Benjamin Watson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the unknown territory of having a baby, moms-to-be have nearly unending resources to plan and execute a healthy pregnancy and navigate those first months and years as a parent with confidence. New dads? Not so much. They want to get in the game too, but, says Super Bowl champion Benjamin Watson, "I could find clearer direction for putting together a baby swing than for taking care of a newborn child." The New Dad's Playbook is every man's game plan to being the best partner and the best father, from pre-season (preparing for fatherhood) to Super Bowl (birth) to post-season (after baby is home). It helps men understand what their wives are going through physically and emotionally during and after pregnancy, allowing them to support their most important teammate. It tells men what to expect when their baby is home--and what to do when the unexpected happens. This tell-it-like-it-is book will take men from just winging it to winning it.

Author : David Claerbaut
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461600472
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recruiting Confidential written by David Claerbaut and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides unprecedented access to the intriguing and sometimes Byzantine world of NCAA Division I football recruiting.

Author : Dan McGraw
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First and Last Seasons written by Dan McGraw and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes and James Dodson's Final Rounds, First and Last Seasons is not only a courageously confessional memoir but a work of resounding originality-a Rust Belt requiem for a father written by the black sheep son he leaves behind. Dan McGraw did not plan to go home to help his father die. To the thirty-nine-year-old Texas-based senior editor for "U.S. News & World Report, Cleveland, Ohio, was a million miles away. Dan was the prodigal middle son within a large Irish-Catholic family, and life never really got going until he was far away from the city and his dominant father, Richard. But the gravitational pull of his hometown grew stronger as each year passed by. The final tug home came when the NFL announced that the Cleveland Browns football franchise would be resurrected for the 1999-2000 season. All McGraws and Clevelanders are die-hard Sunday afternoon football fans, and Dan decided to take a leave of absence and cover the Browns' first season. Soon thereafter, Richard was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Dan came home to a press pass and the caretaking chores for a father intent on dying the way he lived, on his own terms. First and Last Seasons is a heart-wrenching work about fathers and sons, the binding influence of community, and how emotionally disconnected men find a common language in sports. It is also a poignantly funny and charming celebration of one man's life and how his sacrifices and mistakes helped his son find the best part of himself. A beautifully written, intensely personal story, this cathartic chronicle of how Dan participated in his father's final season is sure to speak to the millions of fathers and sons who havetrouble finding the voice to express their love for one another.

Author : Tom Siegert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922337764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Suburban Footballer written by Tom Siegert and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Siegert is The Suburban FootballerTom was a below average junior player and his career has been in free fall ever since. It is the final round of the season and once again he finds himself in the familiar position of warming the interchange bench. It's freezing cold, rain is tumbling down and his head is thumping with his worst hangover since last week. As he sits, wishing he was anywhere but playing a game of footy, he wonders why he does it to himself. Should this be his final season or should he go around one last time?

Author : Rob Kenney
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063075032
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dad, How Do I? written by Rob Kenney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like the YouTube channel, this is a touching yet informative guide for those seeking fatherly advice, or even a few good dad jokes.” — Library Journal

Author : Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399545441
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before the Ever After written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed, and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. Now in paperback. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that--but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?