Pedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7, 2021, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons. Pedro, a proud Cuban American, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had existed between U.S.-born players and the Latin Americans now so important to the game's vitality and future growth. He was also a family man who loved to talk about his three children, Sierra, Dante and Rio, a Boston Red Sox prospect. Pedro was universally known as a smiling presence who brought out the best in people. His humanity and generosity of spirit shaped countless lives, including one of his ESPN bosses, Rob King, who was so moved by Pedro's advice to him--"Remember who you are"--that he printed up the words and posted them on the wall of his office in Bristol. King is one of a diverse collection of contributors whose personal essays turn Pedro's shocking death into an occasion to reflect on the deeper truths of life we too often overlook. Part The Pride of Havana and part Tuesdays With Morrie, part The Tender Bar and part Ball Four, this is the rare essay collection that reads like a novel, full of achingly honest emotion and painful insights, a book about friendship, a book about standing for something, a book about joy and love. Former New York Times writer Jack Curry writes about Pedro's passion for live music, and former Sports Illustrated writer Tim Kurkjian brings alive spring-training basketball games with executives like Sandy Anderson and Billy Beane and Pedro right in the mix. Detroit manager AJ Hinch and formers Texas manager Ron Washington both reveal that in their darkest hours Pedro gave them some of the best advice of their lives. Hall of Famers Dennis Eckersley, Tony La Russa, Peter Gammons, Ross Newhan, Tracy Ringolsby and Dan Shaughnessy are among the contributors. So are likely future Hall of Famers Max Scherzer and Dusty Baker. Pulitzer-Prize-winning Washington Post war correspondent Steve Fainaru, award-winning writers from Howard Bryant and Mike Barnicle to Tim Keown, Ken Rosenthal and Dave Sheinin also contribute. Rounding out the mix are current and former ESPN stars including Rachel Nichols, Shelley M. Smith, Peter Gammons, Bob Ley and Keith Olbermann. This is a book to rekindle in any lapsed fan a love of going to the ballpark, but it's also a wakeup call that transcends sports. To any journalist, worn down by the demands of a punishing job, to anyone anywhere, pummeled by pandemic times and the dark mood of the country in recent years, these essays will light a spark to seize every opportunity to make a difference, in your work and in the lives of people who matter to you.

Canadian artist Michael Snow (born 1929) has been a central figure in North American postwar art; his influential films, such as Wavelength, rank alongside those of avant-garde auteurs such as Stan Brakhage and Gregory Markopoulos. Sequences is a complete monograph of this contemporary Renaissance man, who characterizes his oeuvre thus: my paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor. Accordingly, Snow's texts acknowledge the difficulties an artist faces in approaching multiple disciplines. Across 17 chapters, the artist offers a complete overview of his own work--an editorial task with which he is intimately familiar after having produced several remarkable artists' books. At almost 400 pages, this hardcover is a tour- de-force on and by one of the most outstanding artists of our time.

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The provocative pop artist's on-screen experiments, newly brought to light in this essential reference work In the 1960s, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) produced hundreds of film and video works-short and long, silent and sound, scripted and improvised. This catalogue raisonne of the artist's films, a complement to 2006's Andy Warhol Screen Tests, focuses on works he produced from 1963 to 1965. Detailed cataloguing of each work is combined with orienting and enlightening essays that cover Warhol's influences, source material, working methods, and technical innovations, as well as his engagement with the people he filmed and how they came to life on the screen. In addition, rich entries offer detailed summaries and analysis of more than a hundred individual works. The vigorous illustration program includes countless stills and documentary images to further elucidate the film works, including many that have circulated only rarely. Warhol's dynamic and creative approach to filmmaking redefined the genre, drawing audiences and receiving positive attention along with deep criticism. In 1970, he placed his films in storage for the next 14 years, taking them out of public view and distribution. During that time, critics and audiences could only piece together information about these works from hearsay, verbal accounts, and reviews. Since then, the works have been studied, preserved, and catalogued, culminating in this volume, which illuminates the true significance of Warhol's radical experiments in film and his mastery of the medium. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art

Pete Newell is considered one of the finest basketball minds in the sport's history. His death in 2008 spawned tributes from around the country, including legendary UCLA coach John Wooden and Bob Knight, who considered Newell his mentor. Newell, Knight, and Dean Smith are the only men to coach championships at the Olympics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), and of the three, only Newell won the NIT at a time when it was considered the nation's most prestigious tournament. He had a fiercely competitive rivalry with Wooden and won his last eight meetings against Wooden's UCLA teams before retiring in 1960. Although he retired for health reasons, he continued to teach the game, notably at the famed Big Man's Camp, for the rest of his life. Based on hundreds of interviews of veterans of the game, "A Good Man" is Bruce Jenkins's complete biography of Pete Newell.

Surfing has nearly universal recognition and appeal. Anyone who lays eyes on Hawaii’s Pipeline on a big day stare transfixed, hypnotized and is present. Nothing else matters as we soak in the warmth of the sun and daydream about snagging the wave of our life, whether we have surfing experience or not. Brown Cannon has been a surfer and a photographer for over 30 years and for all this time he has searched and patiently waited for a surf book that depicts the powerful allure of Oahu’s North Shore surf culture. Cannon longed to be able to study the expressions and the gear of the watermen and women and then to be transported directly onto the face of a giant wave. Surfing has hit mainstream media with recent shows like The Ultimate Surfer and a recorded influx of 10.4 million tourists visiting Oahu in 2019 alone, shows that public interest in surf and surf culture are a growing phenomenon. Annually, hundreds of thousands of people yearn to catch a glimpse of the infamous Pipeline and Waimea Bay and yet there isn’t a photography book that delivers and brings readers into the circle, until now, NORTH. The portraits for this collection were all photographed on twenty-foot seamless grey backdrops, allowing the reader to intimately study the exquisite shapes of 12-foot rhino chasers, surfers’ bodies and their raw expressions. The portraits themselves are of surfers, lifeguards, surfboard shapers, water photographers, bodysurfers and bodyboarders. The images are reverent and reflective, allowing the viewer to get into each subject to study their gaze and gear. Surfer Buzzy Trent once said, “Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.” In life we all confront fear, and fear is what often prevents us from doing many of the things we desire. It has the power to stifle happiness, love, truth, adventure and careers. Fear is the line that separates those in the sand from those who venture into the sea on a 20-foot day. But make no mistake, we all have limits and experience fear, the difference simply depends on where each of us draws our own line in the sand. NORTH enables the reader to consider their own fears and to The NORTH collection of photographs is complete and current and includes generations of North Shore legends, new and old.