What Every Hitter Must Know by Billy Kehoe

A hitting instructional book for baseball and softball players. The fact-based, time tested hitting development program is one of a kind.

What every hitter must know is just that... the information and development program in the book can be an eternal guide to becoming a quality hitter.

The author Billy Kehoe, a lifelong baseball junkie, did a study in 2004 to find the truth about hitting.

He went into an intensive 14 month study on what the elite hitters do, and more importantly what they ALL do commonly.

Once the information was gathered and shared among some of the games best minds,Billy took his new developmental program on the road. Completing more than 700 events in nearly 30 states, the program has become ever so popular because of the results it creates.

What every hitter must know is the base from which the program is run. Information, instruction, tips... It's a reference guide to elite hitting.

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When the Yankees Were on the Fritz –Revisiting the “Horace Clark Era” by Fritz Peterson

"When the Yankees Were on the Fritz" is about a low time in New York Yankee history, the Horace Clarke Era, 1966-1974. Fritz's scouts had sold him on the concept that if he were on the Yankees he would be getting a World Series check almost every season, but instead, the Yankees fell to last place in the American League for the first time ever. Fritz never did get a World Series check.

This book is written from a players perspective and attempts to explain why the New York Yankees didn't, and couldn't have won any pennants from 1966 through 1974, a time known as "The Horace Clarke Era" by baseball historians. The book takes the reader from the first day Fritz Peterson appeared in a Yankee uniform in the spring in 1966 to the day he, and three teammates were traded to the Indians in April, 1974. The book shows both the personal and professional sides of life being a New York Yankee in the 1960's and 1970's before free agency when the players were more like a family rather than a business when players all had to work during off seasons, now a lost art. Many players will be highlighted because of the impressions or various incidents that happened making them especially memorable to Fritz. Players range from Mickey Mantle, down to Luke Lamboley, Fritz's first friend to be released (fired) from the Yankee organization.

About Fritz Peterson

Fritz Peterson was born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois and was a White Sox fan until he signed with the NY Yankees in 1963. He won the first game he started on April 15, 1966 against the would be World Champion Baltimore Orioles, 3-2. It was the only game the Orioles lost that month. He won 20 games in 1970 and pitched in the All Star game that season. After an 11 year career he holds the lowest career E.R.A. in the long 85 year history of Old Yankee Stadium. Fritz had an over all e.r.a. of 2.52, Whitey Ford was second with a 2.58 e.r.a.

Fritz became an author in 2009 and again in 2012 and is finishing up 2 other books in 2014. He finds humor in almost everything he does. He and his wife have been married for over 40 years and have raised 7 children (so far) with a 7 year old grand daughter living with them as of 2014.

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Dry Land: Winning After 20 Years at Sea with the Pittsburgh Pirates by Charlie Wilmoth

Dry Land follows fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates through the team's first winning season in two decades. Along the way, Bucs Dugout's Charlie Wilmoth explains how the Pirates finally built a team strong enough to end the streak with a 94-win season and a playoff run.

Dry Land follows Pittsburgh Pirates fans as they navigate the longest streak of losing seasons in the history of major American pro sports. The Bucs' 20-year drift raises provocative questions about why we root for sports teams in the first place. Why would fans invest emotionally in a team with so little to offer? And why do fans who openly describe themselves as "masochistic" and "delusional" stick around?



Charlie Wilmoth chronicles the losing streak and explains how the Bucs finally built a team strong enough to challenge it. Meanwhile, he profiles fans in their teens and twenties who have never seen the Pirates win, and older ones waiting for the team's first winning season in a generation. Stir-crazy after two decades at sea, fans of all ages seethe at the Pirates' ownership and at each other, all while holding out hope that next year might somehow be different. Their loyalty is either inspiring or insane. And after two decades of choppy water, their luck is finally about to change.



"The Pittsburgh Pirates' transformation from record-setting losers to perennial contenders might be this century's best baseball story, and Charlie Wilmoth is the best person to tell it." - Rob Neyer, FOX Sports



"Pirates fans are like no others. After years of sharing his unique insights at Bucs Dugout, Charlie Wilmoth deftly captures the wildly varied emotions of Pirates fans in this excellent book." - Rob King, ROOT Sports



"With a sense of humor and point of view that could develop only through firsthand experience, Charlie Wilmoth chronicles a team and fan base hitting rock bottom, then rising to the top in a redemptive 2013 season. Dry Land examines what motivates fans to remain loyal after decades of losing, and follows them as their skepticism washes away during the Pirates' playoff run." - Tim Dierkes, MLB Trade Rumors

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The 2014 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook by Jay Blue

The 2014 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook is the complete guide to the Toronto Blue Jays Minor Leagues. This book in unprecedented in size and scope and covers everything in the Jays' minor league system from the Buffalo Bisons to the Dominican Summer League. The book features over 250 player profiles, team profiles, a 2013 draft report and much, much more.

The 2014 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook is the complete guide to the Toronto Blue Jays Minor Leagues. This book in unprecedented in size and scope and covers everything in the Jays' minor league system from the Buffalo Bisons to the Dominican Summer League. Included are player profiles on over 250 players expected to play in the Jays' minor league system in 2014 as well as team profiles for each of the club's eight affiliates -- Buffalo Bisons (AAA), New Hampshire Fisher Cats (AA), Dunedin Blue Jays (A+), Lansing Lugnuts (A), Vancouver Canadians (SS-A), Bluefield Blue Jays, (R+), Gulf Coast League Blue Jays (R) and Dominican Summer League Blue Jays (FR).



Compiled by Jay Blue, Charlie Caskey and Jared Macdonald, the 2014 Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Handbook has been written by three of the most knowledgeable Blue Jays minor league writers. All three have first-hand knowledge of all the players and have not only scouted the players but spoken to coaches, broadcasters, front office personnel and even players' family members to inform their opinions.

About Jay Blue

A lifelong Toronto Blue Jays fan, Jay Blue started blogging about the Jays when he was living in Berlin, Germany. He founded his own blog, Blue Jays from Away, to write about developments with his home town team, focusing on the Jays' minor league system. He now gets broaden his prospecting ways as a co-editor of FanSided's Grading on the Curve and writing as a staff writer for Jays Journal. When he's not watching baseball, he is usually on the diamond umpiring or he's pursuing his research interests in the field of ethnomusicology.

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