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Author: Nydia Sagre Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1684714893 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
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Carmen's tumultuous life is finally normal, and she's happy with Kevin, her loving, supportive husband. Everything seems to be looking up until their one-year wedding anniversary when a friend is murdered. The murder turns out to be a professional hit, and the killer mistakenly slaughtered two innocent people when the actual targets were Carmen and Kevin. To protect them both, Kevin fakes his death so he can investigate. Carmen must go on the run but not before she buries a coffin filled with two concrete blocks. She leaves her marriage home unaware if she'll ever see Kevin again as he goes undercover to prove that his stepson ordered them to be killed. Carmen assumes a new name and identity. She discovers a passion for horse training and decides to chase the Triple Crown. Her new path returns her to a thirty-minute romance she had twenty years ago, and again, destiny makes her choose between two men.
Author: Nydia Sagre Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1684714893 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
Book Description
Carmen's tumultuous life is finally normal, and she's happy with Kevin, her loving, supportive husband. Everything seems to be looking up until their one-year wedding anniversary when a friend is murdered. The murder turns out to be a professional hit, and the killer mistakenly slaughtered two innocent people when the actual targets were Carmen and Kevin. To protect them both, Kevin fakes his death so he can investigate. Carmen must go on the run but not before she buries a coffin filled with two concrete blocks. She leaves her marriage home unaware if she'll ever see Kevin again as he goes undercover to prove that his stepson ordered them to be killed. Carmen assumes a new name and identity. She discovers a passion for horse training and decides to chase the Triple Crown. Her new path returns her to a thirty-minute romance she had twenty years ago, and again, destiny makes her choose between two men.
Author: Linda Carroll Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476733228 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 368
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A gripping look at the great duel between Affirmed, the last horse to win the Triple Crown—comprised of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes—and his archrival, Alydar. From the moment they first galloped head-to-head in Saratoga Springs, the two chestnut colts showed they were the stuff of racing legend. Alydar, all muscle with a fearsome closing kick, was already the popular favorite to win the Kentucky Derby. Affirmed, deceptively laid-back streamlined elegance, was powered forward by his steely determination not to settle for second place. In the Sport of Kings, the Triple Crown is the most valued prize, requiring a horse to win not just one race, but three: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes. And 1978 would not be just for the record books, but also one of the greatest dramas ever played out in the racing world. There were names to conjure with, worthy of the Sport of Kings. The bloodline of Native Dancer. The teen wonderboy jockey Steve Cauthen. The once unbeatable Calumet Farm—the Damn Yankees of the racing world—now in eclipse and hoping for a comeback. The newcomer Harbor View Farm—owned by brash financier Louis Wolfson, who wouldn’t let even a conviction and a prison sentence for securities violations stand in the way of his dreams of glory. And the racetracks themselves: Belmont, Saratoga, Pimlico. And, of course, Churchill Downs. It has been thirty-five years since Affirmed and Alydar fought for the Triple Crown, thirty-five years when no other horse has won it. Duel for the Crown brings this epic battle to life. Not just two magnificent Thoroughbreds but the colorful human personalities surrounding them, caught up in an ever-intensifying battle of will and wits that lasted until the photo finish of the final Triple Crown race . . . and Alydar and Affirmed leaped into the history books.
Author: Jim Allen Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: 1649525605 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 272
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Boredom from retirement is lost on a day when two retired friends discover the horror of an auction where they have mistakenly bid on the wrong racehorse. But perhaps a hidden blessing may have been planned, unknown to these horse lovers. God allows trouble to help us grow, and with God, all things are possible. Join Jim and Norm and lady jock Vickie in the training of a wonder horse. Charlie and his trainer, Steve, take the reader on a fantastic fairy tale of an adventure.
Author: Thomas Porky McDonald Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467075655 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 288
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Certain individuals find a singular moment in life used to portray them and/or define them, if not basically brand them. In the world of sports, particularly baseball, this practice is raised to a level that is questionable at best, laughable in most instances and blatantly unfair as a rule. The sports media, along with a growing portion of the general public that refuses to form their own opinions, goes to extremes to constantly relive an individuals weak moments. Curiously, they often then close their ridiculing diatribes by mentioning that labeling a particular person is really unfair. In Never These Men, Thomas Porky McDonald, whose previous works stressed the notion that a game like baseball is there for the joy it gives to those who truly love it and understand it, takes a peek at a small collection of the most famous (or is it infamous?) of these media-fueled characters. The idea that someone who cannot possibly do something (play professional sports) might then play judge and jury on those that can (athletes) seems absurd to McDonald, who clearly feels that the ever-growing rash of media outlets, in concert with an unthinking generation of spectators, has only bloated the array of unfounded criticisms and hypocritical rhetoric within our midst. From Fred Merkle, an early media creation, through to Bill Buckner, a truly fine and underrated ballplayer, Never These Men fundamentally asks the reader to imagine how it feels to be branded for a singular moment in ones life. McDonald, foremost a poet, liberally spreads a few relevant original verses throughout this volume, which is fundamentally a call for fair play. The idea of balanced and proper reporting is considered as well, as in the cases of Ralph Branca, Mitch Williams and Ralph Terry. Though all three were solid Major Leaguers who gave up famous home runs, only the former two are constantly cited, a point of contention here. In the area of authority figures, why Charles Comiskey and Judge Landis are barely scrutinized for their truly abhorrent behavior, while a lifetime baseball man like Gene Mauch is merely brushed aside by far too many is a question that clearly haunts this writer. Never These Men asserts that working in a world with little or no accountability, while demanding total accountability from those whose skill and expertise literally creates your professional existence, is an absurdity that needs to be addressed.
Author: Fred Lieb Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803279629 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 298
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From Honus Wagner to Johnny Bench, Baseball As I Have Known It covers sixty-six seasons of America’s national sport. Fred Lieb, the dean of baseball writers, tells about its heroes, rogues, controversies, and grand plays. He broke in as a sportswriter in the Polo Grounds press box in 1911. In 1933, in the midst of the Depression, Lieb was fired from the New York Post and began a freelance career writing about his beloved sport. Baseball As I Have Known It, first published in 1977 when Lieb was eighty-nine years old, remains a vital record of a glorious bygone era. In superb style, he comments on changes in baseball over the decades and tells inside stories about great events and immortal players.
Author: Nydia Sagre
Author: Nydia Sagre
Author: Nydia Sagre Sagre (author)
Author: Nydia Sagre
Author: Linda Carroll
Author: Jim Allen
Author: Robert Chambers
Author: Thomas Porky McDonald
Author: Robert Chambers
Author: Robert Chambers
Author: Fred Lieb