Bøger af Mark Stallard

From George Brett and Bo Jackson to Carlos Beltran, Alex Gordon, and Billy Butler, Legacy of Blue starts with the beginning of the Kansas City Royals in 1969, highlights the team's glory years in the 1970s and 1980s, and covers the last 20 years up to the beginning of the franchise's turnaround under the GM Dayton Moore. In addition to the history of baseball in Kansas City, the book is loaded with facts, quotes, brainteasers, stories, and more from the Royals' 45 years in the American League-Legacy of Blue covers the bases for one of baseball's best-ever expansion franchises. Originally published as Kansas City Royals Facts & Trivia.

Lamar Hunt's pro football franchise from the "Mickey Mouse" league reached its pinnacle on a January Sunday in New Orleans-his Chiefs defeated the NFL's Minnesota Vikings to become Super Bowl champions. It was the defining moment for the American Football League's best team. SUPER CHIEFS is a collection of narratives, anecdotes, and stories from the Kansas City Chiefs glorious decade (1960-69) in the AFL. The Chiefs won more games than any other team in the league, captured three AFL championships, and placed seven players on the All-Time AFL team. It wasn't easy. Fighting through a change of cities, various setbacks, and tragedies, the Chiefs also recorded many triumphs as they rose to the top of the pro football world.

All things Royals! This classic look at the Kansas City Royals first three decades is a re-issue of an earlier, limited-release book. From George Brett to Bo Jackson, Kansas City Royals Facts & Trivia covers the team's beginning in 1969, the glory years in the 1970s and 80s, and everything else up to the 2000 season. The book includes many, many photos, lots of team and player facts, and enough trivia to stump even the most avid Royals' fan.

Essential tools and insights from the world of implementation consulting Implementation consulting is the spear at the sharp end of the management consulting industry. It is where procrastination and report-writing go to die. It is where the sheer doing of change predominates. There are fact-based tools and approaches employed by implementation consultants which are now well known to clients across the world who have been engaged in implementation projects. Those fact-based tools and many key insights are in this book. FIRST FACTS Fact-based decision-making allows effective managers and leaders to emerge at all levels. Facts can be both easy and hard to come by, yet there is a key set of facts (information) that every business needs. We show you what those facts are, how to get them and what to use them for, so that as far as possible your decisions are grounded in reality. THEN DOING First facts, then decisions, then doing. Doing is the only part that ultimately matters. Otherwise, don't bother. Here we show you the tools that get things done. Mark Stallard is an implemention consultant who has been in this role for over thirty years on two continents and ten countries. He splits his time between West Wales and Asia. This is his first book.

The Kansas City Royals' history-facts, quotes, brainteasers, and stories-is an up-and-down chronicle of baseball at its best. The great players from George Brett to Bo Jackson to Alex Gordon, plus the championship teams, are legendary in the annals of the American League. Other memorable Kansas City moments and more are included in the updated 3rd edition of Legacy of Blue. After beginning as an expansion club in 1969, the Royals had a 10-year run of great seasons in the 1970s and 1980s, then a decades-long run of down campaigns. The franchise is once again on top of with back-to-back World Series appearances and a World Championship in 2015-Kansas City's blue legacy is stronger than ever.Originally published as Kansas City Royals Facts & Trivia.

Acclaim and Praise for ROCK ''N FIREWinner of the 2021 NIEA African American Fiction AwardWinner of the 2021 Kops-Fetherling Gold Award for Sports BookFinalist of the 2021 IBA Next Generation African American Fiction AwardBronze Medal Winner of the 2021 Ippy Midwest Fiction AwardBronze Medal Winner of the 2021 New York City Book Awards for HistoryTop Five Placement in Historical Fiction for the 2021 Best Indie Book Award (BIBA)Finalist in TaleFlick''s Road to Development Contest"This is a rare gem...the story is amazingly written." -TaleFlick"A 1960s Hall-of-Fame historian trying to find information on a Major League ballplayer''s race-related taboo relationship occurring decades earlier...the Golden Age of Baseball and its tarnished surface are strongly featured." -IndieReader"Stallard weaves a tale of discovery (during) a turbulent time period in American history...juxtaposed against the racism of MLB." -Reader ViewsAn unforgettable story hides in the shadows of America''s national pastime... It''s 1963, and civil unrest simmers in America''s streets. Baseball Hall of Fame Historian Frank Aldridge receives a letter from a woman claiming that Ray Cavanaugh, a talented but forgotten left-handed pitcher, may be her father. Fascinated by her story, Frank sets out to discover the truth. What he finds and uncovers is a lost legacy of forbidden love, fragile dreams, and despicable racism... In the 1930s and ''40s, Ray Cavanaugh was known as Rock ''n Fire'', an ace pitcher with a stubborn streak a mile wide. After suffering an injury in a game against Negro League All Stars, Ray meets Aulette... a black woman. Together they defy society''s racist taboos and embark on a passionate affair, knowing it could have disastrous consequences for them both. Inspired by his personal need to know the truth, Frank is driven to find the elusive Cavanaugh, who has not been heard from in more than a decade. And as the years go by, Frank fights his own problems as he presses on to uncover the love story buried beneath decades of hatred and oppression. Told against the sprawling canvas of our country''s turbulent past, Rock ''n Fire is a mesmerizing look at the hope of love in the dark side of America''s favorite sport. 

Beginning with the first official football game played by K-State in 1896, the purple-clad gridders always struggled to find respectability. By the end of the 1980s, the team was mired in a 30-game winless streak and considered the worst college football team in America.Then the turn around.Bill Snyder took over the head coaching duties at K-State in 1989, and within five seasons did something many thought impossible, if not miraculous: he turned Kansas State into not only a winning program, but a dominant contender in the world of college football.From Wildcats to Powercats.Test your trivia knowledge with questions about players, coaches and big games, from George Maddox and Pappy Waldorf to Michael Bishop and Bill Snyder. From Independence Bowl to the Fiesta Bowl. Complete with hundreds of questions, facts and photos.