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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Las Vegas 51s, Larry Bowa, Tim Flannery, Jim Riggleman, Harry Dunlop, Russ Nixon, Brad Mills, Jerry Royster, Terry Kennedy, Bob Cluck, Lorenzo Bundy, Mike Basso, Tony Franklin, Mike Ramsey, Jack Krol, John Shoemaker, Steve Smith, Dan Rohn, Rick Sofield, Pat Kelly, Duane Espy. Excerpt:Robert Alton Cluck (born January 10, 1946 in San Diego, California ) is a former minor league baseball pitcher who later went on to become a scout, a minor league manager and a pitching coach at the major and minor league levels. Minor league playing career Cluck began his playing career in 1967 with the Salt Lake City Giants of the San Francisco Giants organization. In 21 games, he went 3-2 with a 4.20 ERA. From 1968 to 1971, Cluck played in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system. In 1968, he pitched for the Clinton Pilots and Salem Rebels , going a combined 2-2 with a 1.61 ERA in five games started. In 1969, he pitched for the Rebels, going 10-4 with a 2.25 ERA in 20 games (18 starts). He spent the 1970 season with the Waterbury Pirates , going 5-3 with a 3.10 ERA in 22 games (eight starts). With Waterbury again in 1971, he went 2-3 with a 3.80 ERA in 30 games (three starts). He played in the Houston Astros organization from 1972 to 1975. For the Oklahoma City 89ers in 1972, he went 3-2 with a 3.34 ERA in 46 relief appearances. In 1973, he pitched for the Denver Bears , going 6-3 with a 3.82 ERA in 38 relief appearances. He split the 1974 season between two teams - the Cedar Rapids Astros and the Bears - going a combined 1-3 with a 2.10 ERA in 24 games. He played his final season in 1975, for the Dubuque Packers . In his lone appearance that season, he pitched one inning of perfect baseball. Coaching and managing Cluck managed the Dubuque Packers in 1975 and for part of the 1976 season. In 1975, he ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Johan Santana, Roy Oswalt, Ricky Romero, Tim Redding, Morgan Ensberg, Dustin Mcgowan, Russ Adams, Aaron Hill, Tom Mastny, Jason Lane, Ryan Roberts, Adam Lind, Marc Rzepczynski, Jesse Litsch, Kevin Beirne, John Buck, Wade Miller, Shaun Marcum, Brandon League, Curtis Thigpen, Zach Jackson, Mike Rose, Vince Perkins, J. P. Arencibia, Casey Janssen, Dave Bush, Tyler Yates, Félix Escalona, Ryan Houston, Tom Shearn, Mike Gallo, Jamie Vermilyea, Dave Matranga, Josh Banks, Colin Porter, Donaldo Méndez, Dewon Day, Daniel Farquhar, Jordan de Jong, Adam Peterson, Todd Self. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 144. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Johan Alexander Santana Araque (English pronunciation: ; born March 13, 1979 in Tovar, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher who is currently playing for the New York Mets. A two-time Cy Young Award winner, he is considered one of the best pitchers in baseball, with a pitch repertoire that includes a 9195 mph fastball, along with a circle changeup, generally considered his best pitch, and a slider. His warm-up music is the song "Smooth" by Rob Thomas and Carlos Santana Santana delivers a pitch on June 1, 2008 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Mets went on to win 61, and Santana got credit.Santana was discovered in 1994 by Andrés Reiner, a scout who was working for the Houston Astros at the time. He signed Santana and sent him to his academy in Guacara in January 1995. Santana did not like it and almost left, but Reiner convinced him to stay. While originally a center fielder, Santana was converted to a pitcher at the academy due to his arm speed. In 1999 he was named the Tovar Mérida Athlete of the Year. After the 1999 major league season, he was left unprotected by the Houston Astros and eligible in the Rule 5 d...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=725487 ... Read more

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Globalization is more than simply off-shoring work or establishing government programs aimed at expanding trade. Pressures from emerging markets, converging markets, technology advances, customer demands, and resource availability have stimulated globalization as a strategy to improve business results. Globalization strategy, however, is worthless without effective execution in a globally distributed team environment.Based on the authors' personal experience and best practice research of leading global companies, Leading Global Project Teams: The New Leadership Challenge looks at effective global team leadership from a holistic perspective. Martinelli, Rahschulte, and Waddell show that globalization strategy and global execution must be tightly aligned. This means that global product and service development success is not the work of just one leader, but of many working as a collective, collaborative team that happens to be separated by distance, time, culture, and organizational position. This book answers the question "How does one effectively lead highly-distributed global teams to achieve the improved business results needed to compete in today's market?" by focusing on the responsibilities of the collective team - from senior managers, to project managers, to individuals who make up our globally distributed teams. ... Read more

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This book is an excellent tool to better equip project managers with the tactical knowledge to execute projects better and the conceptional framework to understand how to best facilitate organizational change. Appreciated the multiple perspectives and points of view from the interviews from project managers and senior leaders from different industries and organizations. I've used to book to both improve ongoing projects and adjust strategies for starting a new large scale project.A recommended read. ... Read more

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Tim Russert, We Heartily Knew Ye takes you behind the scenes as friends and colleagues share their best, funniest and most poignant stories about an incredible man - the likes of whom we'll never see again. ... Read more

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Great Stories for Tim Russert Fans
This is a collection of stories - eulogies - written by Tim Russert's friends.Rich Wolfe is the author, but really he is the editor.Or just the one who asked people to write the stories and put them together.If you loved Tim Russert like I did, and want to know more about him, you will enjoy this book.If you want to be a great journalist and learn more about one of the greatest, you might benefit from this book.It is better than a lot of books that get thrown together quickly after someone dies.
There are so many authors in this book - people who knew him in high school, college - some of them are good writers and some don't have a very polished style.They use unusual sentence construction and some of the sentences are not complete sentences.It is like the authors were talking into a tape recorder and then someone typed up what they said, maybe cleaning it up a little, but leaving in some of the words and phrases that are not used in good writing.
Wolfe admits that there is repetition in the book, and there is - two or more people shared the same experience with Tim and wrote about it.That's not so bad.The book seems pretty honest about Tim.One of Tim's friends from college described how Tim cheated on a final exam and how he stole meals from the dining hall when he was living off campus.Yet on page 170 it quotes Tim saying in a John Carroll University publication, "You can read all the books...you can know all the facts...but the emphasis on ethics and values are what matter with an education."Those stories lowered my opinion of Tim Russert and his college.But you have to give credit to the book for being honest about it.These stories were included to highlight Tim's social skills - he was able to talk the janitor into opening the professor's office for him, he was able to get the dining hall staff to let him have meals that were not paid for.
If you already read Big Russ, you will recognize some of the material, but there is a lot of new material too.Woodstock and his trip to Washington D.C. after Woodstock are fun stories.There is not much in the book about Tim's wife.There's more about his father and his son.
Several things come across in these stories.Tim was enormously intelligent and energetic.He had terrific social skills.He was genuinely kind and generous with his friends and also with strangers.
When he first joined Meet the Press, I never watched it because I was always in church when it was on.Then I found out how good it was, and started taping it and watching it after church.Now, I still watch MTP, but it isn't half as good as it was, and you can't trust David Gregory to tell the truth.
I'll tell you a secret - the last story in the book is the best.
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Chapters: Tim Lincecum, Joe Nathan, Omar Vizquel, Brian Horwitz, Russ Ortiz, Julián Tavárez, Mike Cervenak, Doug Mirabelli, Dave Roberts, Jason Ellison, Edgardo Alfonzo, Jason Schmidt, Ray Durham, Brett Tomko, Latroy Hawkins, Rich Aurilia, Shawn Estes, Cody Ransom, Jason Grilli, David Aardsma, J. T. Snow, Alan Embree, Kirk Rueter, Pedro Feliz, Eliézer Alfonzo, Randy Messenger, Julio Mateo, Travis Blackley, John Bowker, Damon Minor, Billy Sadler, Ramón Ortiz, Travis Ishikawa, Scott Eyre, Tom Goodwin, Kurt Ainsworth, Ramón Martínez, Nate Schierholtz, Aaron Fultz, Tyler Walker, Pat Misch, Stephen Randolph, Jerome Williams, Alex Sánchez, Rob Ryan, Al Levine, Alberto Castillo, Ben Weber, Bronswell Patrick, Cory Bailey, Justin Knoedler, Brian Bocock, Mike Johnson, Brad Hennessey, Joe Roa, Jacob Cruz, Dan Giese, Matt Anderson, Kevin Frandsen, Brandon Puffer, Matt Palmer, Víctor Santos, Adam Pettyjohn, Scott Atchison, Jesse Foppert, Keiichi Yabu, Daniel Ortmeier, Ricardo Rincón, Kevin Correia, Lance Niekro, Scott Mcclain, Todd Linden, Travis Denker, Brian Wilson, Emmanuel Burriss, Ryan Vogelsong, Brian Mazone, Clay Timpner, Matt Blank, Alejandro Freire, Luis Figueroa, Osiris Matos, Roberto Novoa, Justin Leone, Bobby Estalella, Alex Hinshaw, Jason Christiansen, Ken Ray, William Bergolla, Yamid Haad, Vinnie Chulk, Geno Espineli, Kevin Gryboski, Sun-Woo Kim, Kevin Walker, Ryan Sadowski, Jim Tatum, Steve Holm, Dustin Hermanson, Matt Kinney, Abraham Núñez, Scott Munter, Manny Aybar, Jamie Arnold, Chris Magruder, Jimmy Anderson, Nathan Haynes, Eli Whiteside, Iván Ochoa, Brian Powell, Brett Harper, Michael Tejera, Dave Veres, Bartolomé Fortunato, Carlos Hernández, Guillermo Rodríguez, Deivi Cruz, Doug Devore, David Lee, Wilson Delgado, Joe Horgan, Chris Begg, Leo Estrella, Dusty Bergman, Brandon Villafuerte, Donaldo Méndez, Armando Almanza, Jason Jacome, Julio Santana, Mickey Lopez, Troy Brohawn, Erick Threets, Tomás de La Rosa, Pedro Lir...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6426627 ... Read more

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Chapters: Tim Lincecum, Joe Nathan, Omar Vizquel, Brian Horwitz, Russ Ortiz, Armando Benítez, Doug Mirabelli, Keith Foulke, Rod Beck, Jason Schmidt, Ray Durham, Matt Williams, Shawn Estes, David Aardsma, Eliézer Alfonzo, Joel Chimelis, Bud Black, John Bowker, Damon Minor, Travis Ishikawa, Nate Schierholtz, Aaron Fultz, Jerome Williams, Justin Knoedler, Brian Bocock, Adam Hyzdu, Jacob Cruz, Bob Howry, Brian Burres, Royce Clayton, Kevin Frandsen, Allen Watson, Chris Singleton, Daniel Ortmeier, Madison Bumgarner, Kevin Correia, Erasmo Ramirez, Stan Javier, Lance Niekro, Travis Denker, Brian Wilson, Scott Garrelts, Clay Hensley, Ryan Vogelsong, Clay Timpner, Lou Pote, Yamid Haad, Steve Hecht, Geno Espineli, Don Robinson, Ryan Sadowski, Steve Holm, Scott Munter, Brett Pill, Darren Ford, Nate Bump, Guillermo Rodríguez, Waldis Joaquín, Jesse English, Troy Brohawn, Erick Threets, Alfredo Simón, Chad Santos, Tim Alderson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 259. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Timothy Leroy Lincecum (pronounced ; born June 15, 1984) is a Filipino-American baseball player who is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is nicknamed "The Beast""The Franchise", "The Freak", and "Big Time Timmy Jim". He throws right-handed and bats left-handed. Lincecum is known for his long stride, unorthodox mechanics, and ability to generate high velocity despite his slight build of 5'11", 172 lbs. Lincecum has won the last two NL Cy Young Awards, and was the first second-year player to win the Cy Young since Dwight Gooden and Bret Saberhagen both won in 1985. His repertoire includes a two-seam fastball that reaches into the mid-nineties, a changeup he grips like a splitter, a curveball notable for its sharp breaking action, and a slider. He also has a four...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6426627 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 274 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Russian History, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 528 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. It provides the necessary information for readers to obtain a greater understanding of and appreciation for Russia in all of its many spheres. ... Read more