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For the Yankee Fans Library
When you love a baseball team, you love to know more and more about them. The following books are perfect for the Yankee fans library and belong on your shelves. Have a glimpse of what you are waiting for.
Bronx Bombers
This book, written in 2015, covers the Yankee’s great hitters and their hitting careers, but that’s not all. Most of us are elated when our favorite player hits a home run. Bronx Bombers takes us through the history of iconic home runs made for the team through the years. Remember Mickey Mantle’s 565-foot shot in Washington? How about Babe Ruth’s called shot in the 1932 World Series against the Cubs? Those homeruns and much more are found in the pages of Bronx Bombers.
The author of this book, Lew Freedman, loves sports and as a sportswriter, researched the rich history of the Yankees and gave us Bronx Bombers.
Yankee Legends
Pivotal moments, essential players, and key personalities is the theme of Yankee Legends. This book is a Hall-centric approach to the Bronx Bombers. You will find a treasure chest of tidbits and, of course, emphasis on all the pivotal points in pinstripe past. The interesting facts presented in Yankee Legends will cause any fan to look differently at the Hall’s hallowed Gallery where 16 of the 20 walls or alcoves are graced by plaques representing the franchise that had 27 world championships and counting entering 2018.
Written by a recipient of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Mark Newman had written for nearly two decades with Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB.com).
As a baseball lover, Mark also brought us Diamonds from the Dugout, where he asked baseball personalities, “What hit meant the most to you and why?” This book is a collection of motivational lessons on achieving success in life, organized through stories shared by baseball greats as Derek Jeter, Stan Musial, Ken Griffey Jr., Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski, Wade Boggs, Frank Thomas, Mike Piazza, Cal Ripken Jr. among many more familiar names. Diamonds from the Dugout shares their answers and insights.
Yankee fans will love the rich information in these books. But any baseball enthusiast will love the selection of books from Bue River Press on baseball. In All About Mariano Rivera and All About Roberto Clemente, young readers will learn about the lives of baseball icons Mariano Rivera and Roberto Clemente – how they were raised, what led to their careers in baseball, and what they did with the sport. Have a look around our shop to see all the sports books published by Blue River Press.
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May you always have a homerun in your life.
Creature of Folklore or Evasive Monster?
Haunted Woods
For generations, Jerseyites have shared tales of a mysterious monster that haunts the remote woods and swamps of New Jersey. What is this creature? Where did it come from? Why New Jersey? Why
not Vermont or Delaware or Colorado for that matter? Why does it terrify the people of south Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania? What makes it so slippery? After generations of avoiding the camera lens and capture, this monster has made a recognizable name for itself.
Pine Barrens
Pine Barrens had been a remote area for many years, and over time, it went through some changes. It was this anomalous region where word first filtered out about the periodic forays of the afore mentioned strange creature. For 240 years countless stories of it circulated throughout south Jersey and have been passed on from one generation to the next.
As a story can be enriched by the one telling it, details will change, but the one thing that is constant with the residents of Pine Barren is the legend of the creature. It regularly terrorized communities in south Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, and then returned to its lair somewhere in the Pine Barrens. This is the Jersey Devil.
Creature of folklore or evasive monster? You decide.
You Decide
Is the tale of the Leeds family true? Was the monster a gypsy curse? In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared dead, and scoffed at as sheer foolishness – none of which has had any apparent effect on it or the people who continue to see it.
This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge periodically to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.
Uncover the mystery of this strange creature in the pages of this bestselling book all about New Jersey’s Jersey Devil.
Meet the Authors
James McCloy has a B.A. and M.A. from Rowan University. He spent many years as an Adjunct Professor of History at Wilmington University. He has appeared on many radio and TV programs to discuss the Jersey Devil and has also given lectures at schools, colleges, libraries, and historical societies.
Ray Miller, Jr. has a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and spent many years as a Professor of English at Wilmington University. He co-authored two books on the Jersey Devil and has written numerous articles in various magazines and journals. Ray resides in New Jersey.
Dave McCloy has two associate degrees, a master plumber license, and he lives and works in Lewes, Delaware. Dave has had a life long interest in the legend of the Jersey Devil. Growing up the son of a researcher, lecturer, and writer on the subject, the legend was an every-present part of family life. Today, Dave spends his free time traveling with his wife and dog in their small camper.
What else does Blue River Press offer? We have an array of books from fiction to self-help, from resume writing to how to write with certain styles. Take a look around our shop and see for yourself. If you need to contact us, you can do so here.
The content of this article was taken from the book The Jersey Devil by James McCloy, Ray Miller, Jr, and Dave McCloy, Blue River Press, 2016.