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"What is not written—and shared—may never exist after we are gone. We all have stories. There is something behind everything we do! Only we see it from our perspective, and what we don't say may never be recaptured." (Jay White)
Many of us go through life without writing down and sharing our stories. Once we are gone, the tales of our lives risk being lost to the ages. In his book Earth to Brockton, Jay White provides us with a memorable and entertaining narrative of a young man's exploits after leaving 1970s Brockton, moving to Maine, and launching sideways into adulthood.
When Jay left for college in 1989, he wanted to pursue a life involved in baseball. He didn't cut it as a player. A few writing gigs and baseball statistical data-entry positions and even graduation from professional umpire school bore no fruit. As it would be, life and plans do not always match. Instead, he had to regroup and find a recreated path (and a way to pay for his college degree). Jay ended up holding more than 40 mostly unrelated jobs in eight states and two countries. With very little money, much loneliness, and lots of adventure, he collected many stories worth sharing.
During the global pandemic, while being restricted from friends and extended family and unable to share those stories in person, Jay produced this compilation to provide a healthy alternative to the daily news and the stressors endured by many.
Jay entertains us with thoughtful, witty, and often humorous observations on his life's journey from the right field ball boy's stool at Fenway Park to the battlefields of the Middle East and beyond. He hopes to inspire you to write your own stories as he believes we can all learn from them. And he reminds you: Your clock is ticking.
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- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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Weaving baseball history with personal memoir, this book is one that will make you thrill to victory, believe in hope, stand up to cheer for what is good in peoples' lives. It's a powerful story of redemption and faith that reminds us that God can work in our lives even when we think it's too late to change - and sometimes he sends us signs from heaven if we only have eyes to see.
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not really a sport's fan
- De virginia loranger en 09-24-20
De: Tom Friend, y otros
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Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
- A Journey Into the Heart of Fan Mania
- De: Warren St. John
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Warren St. John decided to find out why people care so much about the outcomes of games they're not playing in by joining a group where the particulars of the fan psyche would show themselves in sharp relief: the caravan of hundreds of RVs that follow the Alabama Crimson Tide across the South, taking over college towns with a moveable feast of Weber grills, karaoke machines, Igloo coolers, and fast-draining liquor bottles.
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Well done
- De James Younger en 10-07-04
De: Warren St. John
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The Best Seat in the House
- Stories from the NHL - Inside the Room, on the Ice…and on the Bench
- De: Jamie McLennan, Ian Mendes
- Narrado por: Todd Ellis
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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A back-up goalie's hilarious behind-the-mask look at life in the NHLJamie McLennan spent 20 years playing professional hockey. Sort of. As the backup for such legendary goalies as Grant Fuhr, Ron Hextall, Roberto Luongo, and Miikka Kiprusoff, he saw everything - except much playing time.
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Very Enjoyable but...
- De M. Froehlich en 06-25-23
De: Jamie McLennan, y otros
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Wherever I Wind Up
- My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
- De: R. A. Dickey, Wayne Coffey
- Narrado por: Ben Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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> The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R. A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues. An English Lit major at the University of Tennessee, Dickey is as articulate and thoughtful as any professional athlete in any sport - and proves it page after page, as he provides fresh and honest insight into baseball and a career unlike any other.
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Marred (for me) by unfortunate performance issues
- De Anthony en 03-28-13
De: R. A. Dickey, y otros
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The Journey Home
- My Life in Pinstripes
- De: Jorge Posada, Gary Brozek
- Narrado por: Lorenzo Irizarry
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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For 17 seasons the name Jorge Posada was synonymous with New York Yankees baseball. A fixture behind home plate throughout the Yankees biggest successes, Jorge became the Yankees' star catcher almost immediately upon his arrival, and in the years that followed, his accomplishments, work ethic, and leadership established him as one of the greatest Yankees ever to put on the uniform.
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Jorge who?!!
- De Jacques en 11-30-22
De: Jorge Posada, y otros
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The Ride of Our Lives
- Roadside Lessons of an American Family
- De: Mike Leonard
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It’s not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge. At 87, Jack is a pathological optimist with an inexhaustible gift of gab. Marge, Jack’s bride of 60 years, though cut from the same rough bolt of Irish immigrant cloth, is his polar opposite - pessimistic and proud of it. What was their son, Mike, thinking when he took a sabbatical from his job with NBC News so he could pile these two world-class originals along with three of his grown kids and a daughter-in-law into a pair of rented RVs and hit the road for a month?
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Hilarious!!!
- De TurtlesRMe en 03-06-07
De: Mike Leonard
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Head On
- A Memoir
- De: Larry Csonka
- Narrado por: Phil Thron
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Larry Csonka ran the football with audacity and authority. He lived his off-the-field life with equal abandon. As part of the NFL's 100th Anniversary, he and his undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins teammates were named the best team in NFL history. In Head On, Csonka shares how they achieved their legendary Perfect Season. From quitting football at a young age, to his often-combative relationship with Coach Don Shula, to brazen exploits with his NFL pals, Csonka narrates a life that is colorful, unbridled, and thrilling.
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My Childhood Hero
- De Amy MacDougall en 01-28-23
De: Larry Csonka
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Rudy
- My Story
- De: Rudy Ruettiger
- Narrado por: Daniel Butler
- Duración: 11 h y 45 m
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How does a lower middle class kid, who suffered through school with undiagnosed dyslexia, get into Notre Dame and become the inspiration for millions in a Hollywood film that has become one of the most inspiring sport movies ever made? He never gave up. For the first time, read Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger's real life story and learn the behind-the-scenes details of the ten years it took to make the movie and how that tossed him into a new career of public speaking that continues on stages today alongside world-class leaders and speakers.
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The rest of the story...
- De Deidre en 09-19-12
De: Rudy Ruettiger
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Loudmouth
- Tales (and Fantasies) of Sports, Sex, and Salvation from Behind the Microphone
- De: Craig Carton
- Narrado por: Craig Carton
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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In this debut, Carton invites the listener to join him as he recounts tales from his suburban youth, defends his long-held love affair with the New York Jets, reminisces about the shenanigans of some of the highest paid and most celebrated athletes playing today, and reflects on his work as one of radio's craftiest, most hilarious personalities ever to get behind the microphone.
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Fun but too much about early life
- De Anthony A. Ciaccio en 07-13-13
De: Craig Carton
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Dr. J Unabridged
- The Autobiography
- De: Julius Erving, Karl Taro Greenfeld
- Narrado por: Julius Erving
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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With his flights of improvisation around the basket and his towering afro, Julius Erving became one of the most charismatic (and revolutionary) players basketball has ever known. But while the public has long revered this cultural icon, few have ever known of the double life of Julius Erving. Dr. J traces the inner lives of the nearly perfect player and the imperfect man - and how he has come to terms with both.
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I may overrate it, but I’m a hoops junkie!
- De @JWTheBlueprint en 01-29-14
De: Julius Erving, y otros
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Golden Arm
- De: Carl Deuker
- Narrado por: Nick Walther
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When he gets an opportunity to pitch for the rich kids across town, he has a chance to get drafted by the major leagues. But playing for the other team means leaving behind his family, including Antonio, Laz's younger brother, who more and more, seems to be drawn to the dark world of the Jet City's drug ring.
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Didn’t want it to end.
- De Christa en 12-20-22
De: Carl Deuker
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The Last Best League, 10th Anniversary Edition
- One Summer, One Season, One Dream
- De: Jim Collins
- Narrado por: Jim Collins
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, the finest college baseball players in the country gather in hopes of making it to "The Show." The hopes are justifiably high: The Cape Cod Baseball League is the best amateur league in the world, producing one out of every six major league players. Over the last decade, baseball's hard truths became evident for the Chatham stars who went on to play professionally, and the final chapter of their story can now be written.
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Jim Collins: Great American Storyteller
- De M. Leavell en 07-01-14
De: Jim Collins
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Pete Rose
- An American Dilemma
- De: Kostya Kennedy
- Narrado por: Ben Bartolone
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
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Pete Rose played baseball with a singular and headfirst abandon that endeared him to fans and peers, even as it riled others--a figure at once magnetic, beloved and polarizing. Rose has more base hits than anyone in history, yet he is not in the Hall of Fame. Twenty-five years ago he was banished from baseball for gambling, then ruled ineligible for Cooperstown; today, the question "Does Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame?" has evolved into perhaps the most provocative in sports, a layered, slippery and ever-relevant moral conundrum.
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Good book, not so good production.
- De david d. en 05-01-14
De: Kostya Kennedy
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Molina
- The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty
- De: Bengie Molina, Joan Ryan
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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A baseball rules book. A tape measure. A lottery ticket. These were in the pocket of Bengie Molina's father when he died of a heart attack on the rutted Little League field in his Puerto Rican barrio. The items serve as thematic guideposts in Molina's beautiful memoir about his father, who, through baseball, taught his three sons about loyalty, humility, courage, and the true meaning of success.
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A book about life
- De P. Griswold en 06-11-15
De: Bengie Molina, y otros
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A Very Punchable Face
- A Memoir
- De: Colin Jost
- Narrado por: Colin Jost
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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If there’s one trait that makes someone well-suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch - metaphorically and, occasionally, physically. Told with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, A Very Punchable Face reveals the brilliant mind behind some of the dumbest sketches on television, and lays bare the heart and humor of a hardworking guy - with a face you can’t help but want to punch.
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Amazing
- De Erin E. Kace en 07-27-20
De: Colin Jost