Wayne R Coffey
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An award-winning sportswriter recounts of 1999-2000 season of the women's basketball team of Gallaudet University, offering unforgettable portraits of the players and their individual struggles for acceptance in a hearing world, the team's dedicated coach Kitty Baldridge. The Gallaudet women's basketball team has just defeated the number one ranked team in the country, the College of New Jersey. A reporter, not wanting to be insensitive, delicately...
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"A memoir written by baseball pitcher R.A. Dickey"--
A personal account about the author's unlikely journey to the big leagues describes how his athletic dream was destroyed by medical findings and how he was sustained by his Christian faith and the love of his family before emerging as a National League premier pitcher.
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Mariano Rivera tells his story for the first time: the championships, the bosses (including the Boss), the rivalries, the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States, and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics. The twelve-time All-Star will discuss what it's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders.
The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story...