Keith Elliot Greenberg
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Language
English
Description
Earning five World Series rings and a slew of other awards, New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is on top of the world. Few Major League Baseball players ever come close to this level of success or name recognition. As USA TODAY, the Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, puts it, Derek Jeter, best player on the best team, brightest light in the biggest city." Jeter had always wanted to play for the Yankees. When he was a senior in high school, the Yankees...
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Language
English
Description
Industry expert Keith Elliot Greenberg chronicles pro wrestling through the most memorable, controversial, and polarizing period of the last two decades.
As a new decade dawned, 2020 was supposed to be the best year to be a wrestling fan. Finally, WWE had serious competition in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and there were viable secondary promotions and a thriving international indie scene. Few in the industry realized that in China, a mysterious virus...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, readers take an evocative journey with author Keith Elliot Greenberg as he pieces together the puzzle of James Dean's final day and its everlasting impact. Greenberg travels to Dean's hometown to talk with folks who knew the star, and all the way to the California roads that underlay the tires of the actor's infamous Porsche Spyder. Taking the story back and forth in time, Greenberg gives insight into what drove...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey is one of the few NFL players to record both 1,000 rushing yards and receiving yards in a single season. Read all about McCaffrey's hobbies, exercise routine, and more.
6) Derek Jeter
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Series
Language
English
Description
One of baseball's most popular and talented stars, Derek Jeter began his major league career with a bang-knocking a home run out of the park in his very first at bat his rookie year. His phenomenal first year continued as he helped the Yankees win the World Championship while also claiming the Rookie of the Year award. In 1998, 1999, and 2000, Jeter went on to lead the Yankees to three more World Championships.
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Language
English
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Description
"The first and only in-depth look at the indie wrestling revolution In 2017, after being told that no independent wrestling group could draw a crowd of more than 10,000, a group of wrestlers took up the challenge. For several years, these gladiators had been performing in front of rabid crowds and understood the hunger for wrestling that was different from the TV-slick product. In September 2018, they had the numbers to prove it: 11,263 fans filled...
Author
Publisher
LernerSports
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of professional wrestling from its roots in legitimate sport to its days as a carnival attraction followed by the growth of regional rivalries and culminating as television-centered entertainment.
11) Love hurts
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
245 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alba, Texas. In 2008, Terry Caffey, a home health care aide and aspiring preacher, was asleep in his bedroom when he woke up to a barrage of bullets. His wife, Penny, was killed instantly. With blood pouring from five bullet wounds, among other serious injuries, Terry tried--but failed--to save his two youngest children before crawling out of his burning house. Meanwhile, Terry's sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was missing. Once Erin was found by...
Author
Publisher
Backbeat Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
240 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Follows the day's events leading up to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman, realizing his perverse fantasy of attaining perennial notoriety, calmly fired four bullets from his Charter Arms .38 Special into the rock icon."--Dust jacket.
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Language
English
Description
For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused. But few knew or understood Jeff Healey - a national icon and one of the world's best blues guitarists - better. Funny and loyal, with a luminous mind and...
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Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A United Nations staff photographer presents an overview of Rwanda's history, focusing on the civil war between the Hutus and the Tutsis, and the struggles of a young refugee.