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Knuckleball: The History of the Unhittable Pitch

Knuckleball: The History of the Unhittable Pitch

Lew Freedman

With pitcher R. A. Dickey, who rejuvenated his career from castoff to 2011 Cy Young Award winner, the knuckleball is still a topic of conversation in the sport, and it continues to be one of the many marvels of our national pastime.
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, ...

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, ...

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R.A. Dickey with Wayne Coffey, “R.A. Dickey Writes of Confronting Darker Sides of Human Nature,” S.I.com, March 27, 2012, ... Mark Carig, “Adam Greenberg Strikes Out Against R.A. Dickey in Second-Chance At-Bat,” Long Island Newsday , ...
Penny Black

Penny Black

Laurence Carter

And Lew Hoad.' 'Lew Hoad?' Tom took her up quickly, 'You mean - the tennis player?' 'Yes.' Tom whistled quietly. 'If I'd have known I'd have asked you to get me his autograph.' He chuckled. 'Lew Hoad. Blow me down. Anyway, what's he like ...
Congressional Serial Set

Congressional Serial Set

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Dickey, John T., Hoboken. N. J. Apparatus for covering flexible conduits with rubber in cement or liquid form _ Dickey, Robert B., Waco, Tex. Memorandum clip -board Dickey, William V., San Antonio. Tex. Nutcracker Dickie, James E., Gillespie, ...
Tennis Down Under

Tennis Down Under

Fred Stolle

Lew Hoad Lew Hoad was big and strong. Muscular. Emotional. Probably the strongest man ever to play tennis, with feelings as deep and strong as his physical body. If Frank Sedgman was the grand master, Lew Hoad was my idol. When I ...
Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and ...

Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity, and ...

R.A. Dickey

In Wherever I Wind Up, Dickey eloquently shares his quintessentially American tale of overcoming extraordinary odds to achieve a game, a career, and a life unlike any other.
Lew Welch

Lew Welch

Rod Phillips

"Biography and criticism of Beat poet Lew Welch (1926-1971)"--Provided by publisher.
Waking with Enemies

Waking with Enemies

Eric Jerome Dickey

New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s must-read follow-up to Sleeping with Strangers.
American Modeler: The Best in Model Planes, Radio Control, ...

American Modeler: The Best in Model Planes, Radio Control, ...

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Lew Andrews had put one in Guillow's Nieuport 27 (also .010 power). Lew also fitted the new midget Otarion toggle switch — in the cockpit where the headrest would normally be located. Every year Roy Cox introduces a real show-stopper.
Liar's Game

Liar's Game

Eric Jerome Dickey

They want to plan a future together—but first they have to stop running from their pasts. Eric Jerome Dickey, a rising star on the bestseller lists, delivers a boldly honest novel—about love that starts with a lie.
Knuckleball Ned

Knuckleball Ned

R.A. Dickey

Cy Young award winner R.A. Dickey creates a funny anti-bullying picture book with an adorable baseball character that kids will love Ned the baseball is very nervous on his first day of school.
Thieves' Paradise

Thieves' Paradise

Eric Jerome Dickey

Eric Jerome Dickey is back with a sexy, fast-paced novel about grifters and con artists, brothers and sisters, looking for love and making ends meet-on the wrong side of the law...
Best Plays

Best Plays

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Principals engaged — Ruby Asquith Lew Christensen Marie-Jeanne Todd Bolender Lorna London Erick Hawkins Misses Campbell, Heater, Tompkins and Vallon. POCAHONTAS A ballet-legend in one act by Lew Christensen; music by Elliott ...
Cheaters

Cheaters

Eric Jerome Dickey

This "hot, sexy, and funny" bestseller (Library Journal) solidifies Eric Jerome Dickey's place as a master of the modern relationship novel.
Burns Mantle Yearbook

Burns Mantle Yearbook

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Principals engaged — Ruby Asquith Lew Christensen Mane-Jeanne Todd Bolender Lorna London Erick Hawkins Misses Campbell, Heater, Tompkins and Vallon. POCAHONTAS A ballet-legend in one act by Lew Christensen; music by Elliott ...
Innocent Blood: A Novel

Innocent Blood: A Novel

Christopher Dickey

In this riveting story of war, love, and deception, Christopher Dickey takes us to the white-hot core of the terrorist mind. Innocent Blood is as real as today's headlines -- and tomorrow's.
A Study of the Place of Women in the Poetry and Prose Works ...

A Study of the Place of Women in the Poetry and Prose Works ...

David N. Dickey

... Their Influence in Founding of the New World, 1530- 1630 28. Tanya Higgins and Nancy Brown Diggs, A Look at Life in Northern Ireland-How Do Women Live in a Culture Driven by Conflict? Dr. David Dickey is a Lecturer in English at the.
Throwing Strikes: My Quest for Truth and the Perfect Knuckleball

Throwing Strikes: My Quest for Truth and the Perfect Knuckleball

R.A. Dickey

The inspiring story of the 2012 National League Cy Young Award Winner Adapted for young readers from his New York Times bestselling memoir Wherever I Wind Up, this is the inspiring story of how knuckleballer R. A. Dickey became one of the ...
Crux: the letters of James Dickey

Crux: the letters of James Dickey

James Dickey

A rich treasury of personal correspondence, representing more than fifty years in the life of the distinguished poet and novelist, features letters to John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Richard Wilbur, Robert Penn Warren, William Styron, Ezra ...
The Rise of the Seminoles: FSU Football Under Bobby Bowden

The Rise of the Seminoles: FSU Football Under Bobby Bowden

Lew Freedman

Through the writing talents of Lew Freedman, one of only two reporters covering FSU during Bowden’s time, this book follows the incredible journey the Seminoles have taken through history.
Sports and Courts: An Introduction to Principles of Law and ...

Sports and Courts: An Introduction to Principles of Law and ...

Frederick J. Day

Situation A picture of current Texas Rangers pitcher R.A. Dickey appeared on the cover of Baseball America's 1996 Olympic Preview. At the time, Dickey was a key member of the U.S. Olympic team's starting rotation. The picture portrayed ...
Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry

Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry

James Dickey

James Dickey Donald J. Greiner. Sidney. Keyes. and. Alun. Lewis. Today we'll talk about World War II and a couple of British guys. Sidney Keyes was killed in the African campaign when he was twenty, and his body was never recovered.
With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua

With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua

Christopher Dickey

Christopher Dickey was the first American newspaperman to go into the mountains of Nicaragua with the Contras and come out alive, and his account of the "secret" war that is being waged against the Sandinista government reads like the best ...
Shooting from the Lip: Essays, Columns, Quips, and Gripes in ...

Shooting from the Lip: Essays, Columns, Quips, and Gripes in ...

Mike Lupica

"I doubt that," Lew Hoad said with a smile. In a day at Wimbledon which centered around a young star named Tracy Austin and a champion named Billie Jean King , it seemed right that Lew Hoad should be on the grounds of the All- England ...
Cooking Across America: Country Comfort: Over 175 ...

Cooking Across America: Country Comfort: Over 175 ...

Mary Elizabeth Roarke

Cindy Dickey (Dickey Farms, Musella, Georgia) Serves 16 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter, divided 21⁄4 cupssugar, divided 4 eggs,room temperature 1 teaspoon pure vanilla 3 cups all-purpose flour,divided 1 teaspoon baking powder 1⁄2 ...
Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

Christopher Dickey

Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion.
Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion

Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion

Bryan Clark Green

Information courtesy of Pamela Hemenway Simpson. Chapter I - Lost Domestic Architecture ADAMS-VAN LEW HOUSE, 231 1 East Grace Street, Richmond Scott, Houses of Richmond 68-74; Elizabeth Louisa Van Lew, Album, 1845— 1897, ...
Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

Lew Ayres: Hollywood's Conscientious Objector

Lesley L. Coffin

Lew Ayres interview by James D'Arc, 1978, p. 9. 11. “What Has Life Taught You?, ” Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, p. E2. 12. Hedda Hopper, “Hedda Hopper's Hollywood,” Toledo Blade, September 13, 1950,p.42. 13. “What Has Life Taught  ...

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