Best Cricket

After Chester lands, in the Times Square subway station, he makes himself comfortable in a nearby newsstand. One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Despite the cricket's comfortable matchbox bed (with Kleenex sheets); the fancy, seven-tiered pagoda cricket cage from Sai Fong's novelty shop; tasty mulberry leaves; the jolly company of Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat; and even his new-found fame as "the most famous musician in New York City," Chester begins to miss his peaceful life in the Connecticut countryside.
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"Since to this audiobook on the way to Alaska with our kids in the car."
"the book is the best i want to read the next one!"
"My son needed this book for school."
"Required reading for son's class served its purpose."
"My niece, who is 4, loved this book."
"Excellent book for children - --."

But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City―the Times Square subway station. Because Chester has a hidden talent and no one―not even Chester himself―realizes that the little country cricket may just be able to teach even the toughest New Yorkers a thing or two. One night, the sounds of New York City--the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices--is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of Times Square, has never heard before. Despite the cricket's comfortable matchbox bed (with Kleenex sheets); the fancy, seven-tiered pagoda cricket cage from Sai Fong's novelty shop; tasty mulberry leaves; the jolly company of Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat; and even his new-found fame as "the most famous musician in New York City," Chester begins to miss his peaceful life in the Connecticut countryside.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My granddaughter read this book with her entire school."
"Since to this audiobook on the way to Alaska with our kids in the car."
"the book is the best i want to read the next one!"
"My son needed this book for school."
"Required reading for son's class served its purpose."
"My niece, who is 4, loved this book."
"Excellent book for children - --."

The official biography of one of Britain's best-loved soccer clubs - packed with stats, facts and trivia. It's a beautiful book, wonderfully written, that is essential for Spurs fans and deserves to be widely read because it is about perspective, culture and identity, precious to fans everywhere yet under attack.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"For what it's worth, I also recommend "Those Glory, Glory Days" a semi-autobiographical movie about her experience as a young girl in a Spurs supporter."
"A wonderful history of a great club."
"Excellent account of the club's history -come on you Spurs!"
"This was a gift for my son, a huge fan and ardent follower of the spurs."
"I liked Julie Welch from the moment I saw on television her "Those Glory Glory Days" a factional account of her love for Tottenham Hotspur and Danny Blanchflower in particular. The style is extremely easy to read and chatty, and the factual matter comes alive when Julie does, i.e. post WWII. No mention of "Spurs" a history of the Club written by Julian Holland in 1956, which is certainly the biography of the Club up until that time, which suggests she did not read it or rely on it, which makes for a loss for the book in the early stages."
Best Cricket

He was a gifted and natural athlete, with potential careers ahead of him in rugby and football, but he eventually chose cricket and came to build a career that followed in his father’s footsteps, eventually reaching the pinnacle of the sport and breaking the record for most Test runs in a year by a wicketkeeper.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Obviously, what happened in his past has made him who he is today; the death of his father being somewhat of a key point in his timeline, sadly coming at the same time as his mum's serious illness. I found the way he compared and contrasted the way cricket was played and run during both his and his father's times; including some very interesting politics. The rest of the book is more a tribute to the people who got him where he is today, his mum and sister to name the main players here and he downplays his own part quite admirably at times although his courage and tenacity screams out from between the lines."
"It is worth reading for this alone, bit there is also some very good stuff about David's character and influence on his son as well as a pretty decent account of Jonny's own progression in cricket. Personally I wasn't; I thought Jonny's assessments of his fellow players was fair and although he is possibly generous at times I like that he refuses to give salacious or damaging accounts of people but concentrates largely on his own game and attitude to it. For example, Ian Bell at one point is described thus: "He'd sometime hold the final position of a shot, as though posing for a sculptor who was about to start chipping away at some vast block of stone," and Andrew Flintoff's arm around Brett Lee's shoulders was apparently "an act of Corinthian compassion.""
Best Lacrosse

Chris Buck, a coach and sport psychology consultant, has worked with hundreds of goalies from youth to the MLL over the past twenty years, helping them with their technique but realized the best goalies in the world are the ones with the best mental game as well. He has consulted with professional and amateur athletes alike, implementing mental conditioning programs in a wide variety of sports, including lacrosse, golf, tennis, soccer, basketball, track/field, crew, fencing, hockey, and baseball. He has worked with goalies all over the country and Canada who have committed to, or are playing at, elite programs such as Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, Drexel, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Georgetown, Villanova, Rutgers, UVA, UPenn, Dartmouth, Union, Tufts, etc.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Chris does a great job in explaining what else a goalkeeper needs to think about and do to expand his/her game."
"Fantastic book for lacrosse Goalies!"
"Good read for every goalie."
"Great book for the teenage Goalie to learn to manage his skills and mind set."
"Phenomenal advice that helped me improve my technique immensely."
"Bought for my son who plays lax, but awesome book for any athlete!"
"Love this book and how it's written."
"In Thinking Inside the Crease, Christian Buck has created a goalie handbook, which specifically addresses the mental obstacles that can cause a goalie (at all levels) to go into a tailspin."
Best Rugby

In Legacy , best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business. Legacy is a unique, inspiring handbook for leaders in all fields, and asks: What are the secrets of success - sustained success? If you read only one leadership book in your life, make it this one.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book tells the story of a group of talented individuals that became an outstanding team."
"I want all my players to read this book and I am doing a book study with my assistant coaches on this book."
"I bought this book to see if it would be interesting for my son, as a high school athlete."
"One of my favorite leadership books!"
"Love the all black, always been my team of excellence,(being a kiwi and all) the chapters are easy to navigate and not a hard a read for beginners."
"Legacy is a great read on leadership theory written around what has worked for the winningest team in sports."
"An excellent review of how a little nation became the most dominant country in world rugby, with the greatest win ratio of any international sport."
"Outstanding expose of what make the All Blacks the world's most successful sports team."
Best Track & Field Sports

McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were born to run. Christopher McDougall is the author of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen and Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"There are people out there who truly love what they do while driving their bodies to complete exhaustion to the point of it being almost dangerous to their health."
"A non running chef enthusiastically recommended this book when I was last in his restaurant. But this is one brilliantly written book that deserves to be the national best seller that it has become because people tell each other about it."
"He ultimately gets an education in evidenced-based, experiential, and peer-reviewed research that turns mainstream theories of running bio-mechanics, extreme endurance and the evolution of man on their sides. But the reviewer tires of the narrative rambling through the remainder of the 300 pages, and wishes that the author would simply get to the point, further suggesting that busy readers bypass the excess and skip right to these four chapters. You do not have to be an extreme endurance practitioner or enthusiast to realize and experience the thesis of the book, that man was born to run. Fortunately, Wikipedia and Google search make short work of that task as long as you don't reside in the Copper Canyons of Mexico (their internet coverage is not quite as ubiquitous as elsewhere). I intend to write a more detailed exposition focusing particularly on the research referenced throughout the book, but that will require a second reading, and no doubt a few more runs under my belt.)."
"As always, I love books where the author presents new information in an engaging fashion!! There's Ann, for example, a short, slender, community college teacher, who was the female champion of the Western States 100 FOURTEEN TIMES, and during one fun four year stretch, she ran an ultramarathon every other month. Yet she seemed to get stronger and faster the more she ran. Oh, and while barefoot or wearing homemade sandals, not fancy running shoes. The entire book was really fascinating—since I find running in general to be downright boring, if I find a book about running to be this entertaining, then the author did a great job!"
Best Volleyball

In Dream Like a Champion Cook shares the philosophy behind Nebraska’s culture of success and reveals how he’s had to learn, evolve, and be coached himself, even in his fifth decade as a coach. (Jon Johnston Corn Nation 2017-12-12). “Great coaches and teachers relentlessly strive for learning and improvement—in their people, in their teams, and in themselves. In Dream Like a Champion John reveals his relentless quest for better team chemistry, improving communication skills, proper goal setting, and attention to detail—which together result in peak performance.”—Tom Osborne, former Husker head football coach, University of Nebraska athletic director, and U.S. congressman. His growth mind-set and ability to constantly develop new leadership skills make him a special breed of coach.”—Jack Riggins, co-founder of Performance Mountain, retired U.S. Navy SEAL, and assistant football coach at Midland University.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Must read for all volleyball,or sport fans."
"A great biography of Coach John Cook!"
"great read for cornhusker fans!!"
"My two favorite quotes, which work in worlds beyond sports were; "if you remain open-minded, your ego will evaporate with experience" and from Top Gun; "never leave your wingman." The thing that made me the happiest was hearing Coach Cook talk about how he has learned over time to switch from coaching with anger to coaching with love. I've watched too many times him slamming his clipboard on the scorers table in frustration when he would call a time out."