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Dream Team: Saints and Gentle Souls From the World of Sports
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Former Marquette University basketball coach Al McGuire retired from coaching in 1977, just months after leading Marquette to the NCAA championship. When announcing his departure, McGuire explained, “There’s more to life than coaching guys in short pants.” Baseball great Roberto Clemente was even more to the point: “Anytime you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on Earth.”
With a voice that exudes his love of sportsmanship and his faith in God’s plan, attorney Frederick J. Day presents the fascinating and uplifting true stories of athletes, coaches, and sportswriters who, like McGuire and Clemente, recognized that life matters well beyond what takes place on a court or field. Showcasing the goodwill of dozens of sports heroes from the last century, Day proves that athletes can serve as powerful inspiration for positive contributions to society.
Dream Team pays tribute to athletic pillars who understood, as did tennis player Arthur Ashe, that “the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.”
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Equine Do: The Way of The Horse
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The definite purpose of this book is to share information and knowledge (based on facts and not opinion) with all those who love horses and want to understand not only how to see postural faults that compromise comfort and performance but also have a desire to make the necessary changes to better them. I will reference some of the common problems you may be experiencing with your horse therefore allowing you to have a better understanding of where the issues may be coming from. A better understanding is a more educated horse owner, and a more educated horse owner saves money.
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Focus Like A Champion: The Athletes’ Playbook to Build Confidence in Basketball
Price range: $14.99 through $24.99Do you want to get in the zone and stay there longer? Focus Like A Champion will teach you key concentration skills and ways to manage distractions that are getting in your way. You will learn strategies to help you identify what to focus on and how to stay focus on what is important. The ability to focus is critical. World-class athletes have mastered the power of focus and that is why they are successful. This book will teach you how
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Home Run
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Did it ever happen to you that a brief incident in your distant past, that you nearly forgot, comes back to you to help you solve a modern dilemma? That’s what happens to Bob Campbell. As a young boy he hit a foul ball that landed at a cemetery grave. A brief look at the tombstone at a name that meant nothing to him at that time, helps him reunite a wayward son with family he never thought he’d meet. It shows that sometimes foul balls can win games.
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K.I.S.S. Football: Keep it Simple and Sound
Price range: $3.99 through $17.99This book contains proven approaches, ideas and schemes that come from attending many coaching clinics and from years of coaching experience. My intentions are to help you prepare your team in a positive and simplistic manner. In my book, you will complete a tried and proven system to attack and control the defense. These basic tools will help you prepare your players for success, regardless of your level of experiences as a coach or that of your athletes as less experienced players. Numbers, letters, and code-words are used throughout the book in order to facilitate communication between players and to their coaches. Always keep in mind that “If you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Coach Robert “Bob” Gavette
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Playing Hurt
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99BRIAN is playing his last high school football game. When he gets hurt, the coach tells him he must stay in the game since there isn’t anyone to replace him. Brian is worried about his future and his love for DEANIE, a beautiful cheerleader.
After the game, trouble develops when BILL, Deanie’s old boyfriend returns to town. Brian is distracted by e beer party and mischief with the rival school. Deanie is with her girlfriends when Bill appears. Deanie is coerced into his car and forced to have sex. Deanie doesn’t tell Brian. Bill leaves town, promising to return in the spring.
In February, Deanie tells Brian she is four months pregnant. Brian counts the months back and suspects that Bill might be the father. Deanie confesses and Brian is devastated. When Bill returns, Brian lures him out of town. Bill is severely beaten, but when Brian’s back is turned, Bill manages to get into his car and grab his pistol. Brian is shot in the arm. With the barrel pressed against Brian’s head, Bill blurts out that he had sex with Deanie many times. Suddenly there is another shot, but this time a bullet slams into Bill’s chest. Deanie is holding Brian’s rifle. Bill dies at the hospital.
In the summer, Deanie gives birth to a baby with dark hair and eyes like Bill’s. Heartbroken, Brian enlists in the army. Aboard the bus, he agonizes over leaving Deanie. Alone and afraid, he slumps back in the seat. Then, he remembers what his coach said about playing hurt, and he realizes that he must go on, even if it does hurt.
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The Big Game
Price range: $3.99 through $8.99Ten-year-old Josh Winters and his cousin, Clint Daniels, help lead their team to victory at the Little League World Series.
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The Bouncing Football: Life Lessons on the Gridiron
Price range: $3.99 through $15.99He questioned the system and paid the price….
But 44 years ago, he played for the Dallas Cowboys for a single season as a middle linebacker. During his rookie season in 1973, the 23-year-old from Waco was a backup to a fading legend, Lee Roy Jordan, and was traded by October of 1974 before he vanished from pro football altogether just two years later.
His official Rice University biography, penned upon his induction into that school’s hall of fame in 2011, notes that his career was cut short by injuries. Bu that is not the whole truth. Rodrigo Barnes was, he has long believed, punished for being an outspoken black man in an industry controlled by white men. He was banished for being “a radical at a time when radicals weren’t popular”, beloved Cowboy’s wide receiver Drew Pearson once said.
It might be tempting to say that before there was a Colin Kaepernick, there was Rodrigo Barnes – a man exiled from the game he loved. There may be a certain truth to the comparison. Both men sacrificed their pro football careers to protest the treatment of black men in America.
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The Wonderments of Life
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99The Wonderment of Life connects spirituality, political thoughts, and coming of life as a young man and woman experience it in this world with the promise that there is more; a return to The Source. This man faces an athletic endeavor and gradually seeks a life of service in politics. The woman dedicates her life to loving her husband, her family, and giving back to the homelessness issue. This book is about the wonderment of life.
