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Calvin
Calvin: Baseball’s Last Dinosaur traces Calvin Griffith’s rise from poverty, adopted by Hall of Famer Clark Griffith, to owner of the Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins. Spanning the 1920s–1980s, it features friendships with baseball legends and American power brokers as the family-run franchise faces triumphs, scandals, and the corporate takeover of modern sports. With Jon Kerr’s help, Calvin delivers his blunt account of how baseball—and America—changed.
Superb! Must read… for all who love baseball history.
—Ken LeZebnik, publisher, Minneapolis Review of Baseball -
Kayaking the Great Circle Trilogy
Some people chase windmills; Randy Bauer circumnavigates the United States by kayak. The Trilogy began as a dream, then became a risk-filled reality—one that challenges our ideas of comfort and courage. Told by his brother, James J. Bauer, this adventure follows Randy through joys, trials, and unforgettable people met along the way. It’s a testament to resilience, tenacity, and the quiet inner voice urging us toward the adventure we dare to take.
This journey put Randy Bauer in the Guinness Book of World Records
—Joe Meiman, verified review on Amazon -
More Than the Game
More than the Game is a fictionalized memoir of Coach Warrington, who has lost his locker room after a brutal season. After a final defeat, the athletic director pushes him to meet weekly with mentor Mitchell McClellen, a retired coach with a three-phase “Process of the ’Ship.” Reluctantly, Warrington learns that true success is culture and legacy—not just wins—and must decide if he’ll change.
Change… through daily core values
—Randy Jackson, author of Culture Defeats Strategy -
The Talent Thief
What if everything we know about developing talent is backwards? After fifteen years watching kids play in a gym in St. Paul, soccer coach Ted Kroeten discovered that talent isn’t about trying harder—it’s about making others do the work for you. The Talent Thief reveals why play beats practice, how movement functions as language, and what the forty-billion-dollar youth sports industry keeps getting wrong.
Kroeten has provided the framework to revolutionize our sports development system if we have the sense to pay attention.
— Brian McCormick, 20 Hacks for the 24-Hour Athlete
