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Ole Club Foot was born with a deformity in one foot, so running
away from trouble was not an option. He learned different and
better ways to survive. He grew a huge body and a world class rack.
He became king of his domain. Hunters were saying that he was one
of those unkillable bucks. Bruce Turner learned as a young hunter
how to use all his senses to a high degree to make him a hunter
above everyone else. It was said that he could track down anything
and kill any buck he went after, but it will take all of Bruce's
skills and knowledge to kill a buck as wise as Ole Club Foot. Bruce
was at home in the woods where he never expected to find a
beautiful girl in the woods with his same interest, but when he
saves her life, she misunderstands and turns away from him. Would
he ever get a chance to win her back? Bruce, the girl, and Ole Club
Foots lives get intertwined and reach an exciting climax that you
don't want to miss. Pat Jordan, the author of Ole Club Foot, has
spent 45 years chasing whitetails in Northern Michigan. A lot of
the material he writes about in this book was taken from personal
experience or from those he's hunted with.
The ultimate instruction for young pitchers. In addition to
covering all the basic pitches, it also includes sections on proper
motion, strength development, and pitching control.
All the people in these stories break rules and test the boundaries
of habit, faith, or even television. For good or bad, the covers
are stripped away and life can never be the same again. Humour
flits through the unsettling events, from an invasion by cows,
crime in Dublin, death in a dustbin, to village legends and the
everyday visions of a mad girl.
Strangers Kitty and Simon inherit a rundown house and fields in
mid-Ireland. At a time of transition all around, the house draws
them back into its history. With his friend Josh, Simon is engaged
in illegal deals and when Kitty becomes involved, the three are
caught in a life of deception played out against the beginnings of
the Celtic Tiger.
Few writers know more about pitching, and few pitchers know more
about writing than Pat Jordan. Suitors of Spring is a collection of
eight of Jordan's essays about pitchers and pitching, originally
published in Sports Illustrated. From the cultivated genius of Tom
Seaver, to the irresistible wisdom of Johnny Sain, to the tragic
mystery of Steve Dalkowski, the fastest pitcher ever, Jordan's
portraits show us, simply and hauntingly, that wins and losses have
more to do with a pitcher's heart and mind than his velocity and
location.
These short stories bring changes, taking their pulse as the people
involved navigate startling situations.
While a star sports writer in the 1980s, Pat Jordan wrote a novel
called THE CHEAT. It is a baseball story, but not the baseball
story the world was ready to embrace from the author of A FALSE
SPRING. It is a wrenching tale of a passion-filled, yet empty man
who simultaneously seeks the truth about himself while running away
from it. THE CHEAT is a brilliant and under-appreciated work.
Ole Club Foot was born with a deformity in one foot, so running
away from trouble was not an option. He learned different and
better ways to survive. He grew a huge body and a world class rack.
He became king of his domain. Hunters were saying that he was one
of those unkillable bucks. Bruce Turner learned as a young hunter
how to use all his senses to a high degree to make him a hunter
above everyone else. It was said that he could track down anything
and kill any buck he went after, but it will take all of Bruce's
skills and knowledge to kill a buck as wise as Ole Club Foot. Bruce
was at home in the woods where he never expected to find a
beautiful girl in the woods with his same interest, but when he
saves her life, she misunderstands and turns away from him. Would
he ever get a chance to win her back? Bruce, the girl, and Ole Club
Foots lives get intertwined and reach an exciting climax that you
don't want to miss. Pat Jordan, the author of Ole Club Foot, has
spent 45 years chasing whitetails in Northern Michigan. A lot of
the material he writes about in this book was taken from personal
experience or from those he's hunted with.
In "A Nice Tuesday," Pat Jordan chronicles his decision to reclaim
the failed potential of his youth. A young baseball pitcher of
inordinate promise, Jordan had been one of the Milwaukee Braves
first "bonus babies." His struggle through the minor leagues and
ultimate failure to play in the majors, eloquently chronicled in A
False Spring, defined his youth. At fifty-six, Jordan realizes that
"this trivial thing" has also defined his life and decides to make
a comeback. He whips himself back into playing condition and
convinces an independent minor-league team, the Waterbury
(Connecticut) Spirit, to let him return to the mound one last time.
In this memoir, Jordan lays bare his midlife quest with honesty and
humor, making "A Nice Tuesday" about much more than baseball.
In "A False Spring," Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his
once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his
equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When
the reader meets Jordan, he is a hard-throwing pitcher with
seemingly limitless potential, one of the first "bonus babies" for
the Milwaukee Braves organization. Jordan's sojourn through the
lower levels of minor-league ball takes him through the small towns
of America: McCook, Waycross, Davenport, Eau Claire, and Palatka.
As the promised land of the majors recedes because of his
inconsistency and lack of control, the young man who had previously
known only glory and success is forced to face himself.
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