The Victory Season

The Victory Season
Author: Robert Weintraub
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0316205907

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The triumphant story of baseball and America after World War II. In 1945 Major League Baseball had become a ghost of itself. Parks were half empty, the balls were made with fake rubber, and mediocre replacements roamed the fields, as hundreds of players, including the game's biggest stars, were serving abroad, devoted to unconditional Allied victory in World War II. But by the spring of 1946, the country was ready to heal. The war was finally over, and as America's fathers and brothers were coming home, so too were the sport's greats. Ted Williams, Stan Musial, and Joe DiMaggio returned with bats blazing, making the season a true classic that ended in a thrilling seven-game World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals. America also witnessed the beginning of a new era in baseball: it was a year of attendance records, the first year Yankee Stadium held night games, the last year the Green Monster wasn't green, and, most significant, Jackie Robinson's first year playing in the Brooklyn Dodgers' system. The Victory Season brings to vivid life these years of baseball and war, including the littleknown "World Series" that servicemen played in a captured Hitler Youth stadium in the fall of 1945. Robert Weintraub's extensive research and vibrant storytelling enliven the legendary season that embodies what we now think of as the game's golden era.

Hometown Victory

Hometown Victory
Author: Keanon Lowe
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250807646

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The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love? With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon’s journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.

The Victory Machine

The Victory Machine
Author: Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781541736221

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"The Golden State Warriors are the envy of the modern NBA. Chasing their third consecutive championship, they have assembled an incredible wealth of athletic talent, lead the league in merchandise sales, and are planning to move into a glitzy new stadium next season. Their owner, Joe Lacob, regularly hosts the top CEOs and influencers of Silicon Valley in his box, fashioning himself into one of the most powerful men in the world. Yet inside the organization, there is considerably more strife. In this breakthrough work of reportage, star NBA reporter Ethan Sherwood Strauss investigates the team's culture, its financial ambitions and struggles, and the toll that being a super-team can take. In so doing, he not only rewrites the story of the Warriors, but reveals how the Darwinian business of NBA basketball really works. Reconstructing the deals that lured Steph Curry away from Nike and Kevin Durant away from Oklahoma City, Strauss shows how the smallest mistakes can define success or failure for years. And, as he looks ahead to the 2020 season, Strauss ponders whether this organization can survive its own ambitions"--

The Victory Girls (The Shop Girls, Book 5)

The Victory Girls (The Shop Girls, Book 5)
Author: Joanna Toye
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-07-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0008442002

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The new book in the heart-warming WW2 family saga series!

Final Victory

Final Victory
Author: Stanley Weintraub
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-07-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0306821133

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A compelling narrative about FDR, preoccupied with winning the war and his deteriorating health, and the hard-fought presidential election for an unprecedented fourth term

Ashes Of Victory

Ashes Of Victory
Author: David Weber
Publisher: Baen Books
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2000-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0671578545

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Although The People's Republic of Haven believed Honor Harrington to be already dead and announced her execution, she returned from the prison planet called Hell, ready to aid the Allies' cause in the war.

The Victory Garden

The Victory Garden
Author: Rhys Bowen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781542040129

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When Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate, she finds inspiration and support in the journals of a medicine woman after learning the devastating news of her fiancé's death.

World Series Winners

World Series Winners
Author: Ross Bernstein
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1600786715

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"MLB champions in their own words"--Jacket.

Every Young Man's Battle

Every Young Man's Battle
Author: Stephen Arterburn
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2004-01-20
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1578569702

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In this world you’re surrounded by sexual images that open the door to temptation. They’re everywhere–on TV, billboards, magazines, music, the internet–and so easy to access that it sometimes feels impossible to escape their clutches. Yet God expects his children to be sexually pure. So how can you survive the relentless battle against temptation? Here’s powerful ammunition. Steve Arterburn and Fred Stoeker, the authors of the hard-hitting best-seller Every Man’s Battle, now focus on the temptations young single Christian men like you face every day–and they offer workable, biblical strategies for achieving sexual purity. The authors examine the standard of Ephesians 5:3–“there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality”–in a positive and sensitive light. And they explain how an authentic, vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ is the key to victory over temptation. Every Young Man’s Battle will show you how to train your eyes and your mind, how to clean up your thought life, and how to develop a realistic battle plan for remaining pure in today’s sexually soaked culture. As a result, you’ll experience hope–real hope–for living a strong, pure life God’s way

How the War Was Won

How the War Was Won
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107014751

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An important new history of air and sea power in World War II and its decisive role in Allied victory.