Bøger af John Thorn

This heartwarming picture book, filled with vibrant illustrations, teaches children the valuable lesson that even in the face of temptation, the love of our Shepherd, Jesus, is a guiding light home. "The Little Lost Sheep" is a captivating journey of forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring love that binds us all together. Perfect for bedtime stories or quiet reading moments, this delightful book will warm the hearts of young readers and leave them with a lasting message of love, forgiveness, and the joy of being part of a caring community.

Now available in paperback, the “fresh and fascinating” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland), “splendid and brilliant” (Philadelphia Daily News) history of the early game by the Official Historian of Major League Baseball.Who really invented baseball? Forget Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown and Alexander Cartwright. Meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and other fascinating figures buried beneath the falsehoods that have accrued around baseball’s origins. This is the true story of how organized baseball started, how gambling shaped the game from its earliest days, and how it became our national pastime and our national mirror.Baseball in the Garden of Eden draws on original research to tell how the game evolved from other bat-and-ball games and gradually supplanted them, how the New York game came to dominate other variants, and how gambling and secret professionalism promoted and plagued the game. From a religious society’s plot to anoint Abner Doubleday as baseball’s progenitor to a set of scoundrels and scandals far more pervasive than the Black Sox Fix of 1919, this entertaining book is full of surprises. Even the most expert baseball fan will learn something new with almost every page.

The Tengu is resting in a tree when he sees a little boy playing with a piece of bamboo. The Tengu assumed it is magic rod since the little boy could see amazing things while playing with it. He was determined to have the stick for himself. He offers the boy a magic coat in trade. Will the boy accept?

Long before Moneyball became a sensation, or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, the authors were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. In this book, they argue in favor of more subtle measurements that correlated much more closely to the ultimate goal: winning baseball games.