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Prayer Therapy

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Series series Elf-help
This book will fill readers with the confidence they need to add prayer to life. ... Read more

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Getting Through the Hurt

by Keith McClellan, Silas Henderson, Francis Wagner, Ann Rohleder, Ronald Knott ...

Series series Pathways
Sometimes life just seems to get the best of us. The wounds can cut very deep on occasion: addiction, divorce, grief, feeling unloved and unwanted, and so many others. And the scars may never entirely heal. However, our Christian faith urges us to recall that Jesus rose from the tomb with visible but transformed wounds, demonstrating that nothing in life is wasted in the economy of God's mercy. ... Read more

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Sometimes life just seems to get the best of us. The wounds can cut very deep on occasion: addiction, divorce, grief, feeling unloved and unwanted, and so many others. And the scars may never entirely heal. However, our Christian faith urges us to recall that Jesus rose from the tomb with visible but transformed wounds, demonstrating that nothing in life is wasted in the economy of God's mercy.
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The Sunday Game

At the Dawn of Professional Football

by Keith McClellan ...

In the most complete and compelling account of the origins of professional football, The Sunday Game tells the stories of all the teams that played independent football in the small towns and industrial cities of the Midwest, from early in the twentieth century to the beginning of the National Football League shortly after the end of World War I. The foundations of what is now the most popular ... Read more

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In the most complete and compelling account of the origins of professional football, The Sunday Game tells the stories of all the teams that played independent football in the small towns and industrial cities of the Midwest, from early in the twentieth century to the beginning of the National Football League shortly after the end of World War I. The foundations of what is now the most popular
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Scandal on the South Side: The 1919 Chicago White Sox

SABR Digital Library, #28

by Society for American Baseball Research ...

Series Book 28 - SABR Digital Library
The Black Sox Scandal is a cold case, not a closed case.When Eliot Asinof wrote his classic history about the fixing of the 1919 World Series, Eight Men Out, he told a dramatic story of undereducated and underpaid Chicago White Sox ballplayers, disgruntled by their low pay and poor treatment by team management, who fell prey to the wiles of double-crossing big-city gamblers offering them bribes to ... Read more

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The Black Sox Scandal is a cold case, not a closed case.When Eliot Asinof wrote his classic history about the fixing of the 1919 World Series, Eight Men Out, he told a dramatic story of undereducated and underpaid Chicago White Sox ballplayers, disgruntled by their low pay and poor treatment by team management, who fell prey to the wiles of double-crossing big-city gamblers offering them bribes to
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A Payroll to Meet

A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU

by David Whitford ...

Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school’s football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time football universities that were often more than double its size. Under pressure to compete, the SMU ... Read more

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Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school’s football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time football universities that were often more than double its size. Under pressure to compete, the SMU
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A Game of Inches

The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field, Volume 1

by Peter Morris ...

As befits a game traditionally passed from one generation to the next, baseball has always had a special reverence for origins. Claims of being first with any element of the game are disputed with fervor and passion. When the octogenarian Fred Goldsmith died in 1939, a headline proclaimed, 'Goldsmith Dies Insisting He Invented Curve Ball'; Fred Goldsmith understood the secret of immortality. Yet ... Read more

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As befits a game traditionally passed from one generation to the next, baseball has always had a special reverence for origins. Claims of being first with any element of the game are disputed with fervor and passion. When the octogenarian Fred Goldsmith died in 1939, a headline proclaimed, 'Goldsmith Dies Insisting He Invented Curve Ball'; Fred Goldsmith understood the secret of immortality. Yet
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Penn State Football

The Complete Illustrated History

by Ken Rappoport, Barry Wilner ...

From an AP sports writer and author, a history of Pennsylvania State University's Nittany Lions, with personal stories from coaches and players.In Tales from Penn State Football, Ken Rappoport puts you on the fifty-yard line and sometimes gets you a seat on the bench or a stall in the locker room. From the first team in the 1880s to the celebrated Joe Paterno teams of the 20th century, Penn State ... Read more

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From an AP sports writer and author, a history of Pennsylvania State University's Nittany Lions, with personal stories from coaches and players.In Tales from Penn State Football, Ken Rappoport puts you on the fifty-yard line and sometimes gets you a seat on the bench or a stall in the locker room. From the first team in the 1880s to the celebrated Joe Paterno teams of the 20th century, Penn State
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Penn State Football

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by Daniel J. Brush, David Horne, Marc CB Maxwell, Jared Trexler ...

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WE ARE . . . SPORTS BY THE NUMBERS. The new, exciting, and completely original book series continues with an in-depth look at the proud history of Penn State football.THE TEAM: Rooted in success achieved through dignity and situated amongst the rolling farmland of Pennsylvania’s “T” region, the Penn State football program has won two national championships and posted seven undefeated, untied
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Nineteenth Century Stars

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With almost 150 years of baseball history, the stories of many players from before 1900 were long obscured. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) first attempted to remedy this in 1989 by publishing a collection of 136 fascinating biographies of talented late-1800s players. Twenty-three years later, Nineteenth Century Stars has been updated with revised stats and re-released in both a ... Read more

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With almost 150 years of baseball history, the stories of many players from before 1900 were long obscured. The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) first attempted to remedy this in 1989 by publishing a collection of 136 fascinating biographies of talented late-1800s players. Twenty-three years later, Nineteenth Century Stars has been updated with revised stats and re-released in both a
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The Forgotten First

Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, Marion Motley, Bill Willis, and the Breaking of the NFL Color Barrier

by Keyshawn Johnson, Bob Glauber ...

The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946.THE FORGOTTEN FIRST chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come.More than a year before Jackie ... Read more

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The unknown story of the Black pioneers who collectively changed the face of the NFL in 1946.THE FORGOTTEN FIRST chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come.More than a year before Jackie
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The Gipper

George Gipp, Knute Rockne, and the Dramatic Rise of Notre Dame Football

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Win one for The Gipper. Has there ever been a better-known and widely-used exhortative phrase in sports? Not likely. But who was the “Gipper,” this mythical-like sports figure whose nickname has aroused, in turn, awe, wonderment, curiosity, and amusement since the second decade of the twentieth century, and why is his story important? Answering those questions is the formidable task taken on here ... Read more

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Spoke

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One of the greatest centerfielders ever, Tris Speaker's career was full of colorful moments on and off the field. This biography chronicles his career spent with the Boston Red Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Washington Senators, and the Philadelphia Athletics. It also follows his years as a minor league manager and part owner, civic activist, Indians coach, and general promoter of baseball. Every ... Read more

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One of the greatest centerfielders ever, Tris Speaker's career was full of colorful moments on and off the field. This biography chronicles his career spent with the Boston Red Sox, the Cleveland Indians, the Washington Senators, and the Philadelphia Athletics. It also follows his years as a minor league manager and part owner, civic activist, Indians coach, and general promoter of baseball. Every
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