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Harvard Boys: A Father and Son's Unlikely Adventures Playing Minor League Baseball

Product Description: Harvard has a reputation for turning out notable lawyers, doctors, politicians, and scientistsâbut not exactly for producing professional ballplayers. However, in the mid-1970s Rick Wolff transferred from this major leaguer of academia to baseballâs minors, playing for the Detroit Tigers organization...read more

By John Wolff and Rick Wolff

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9781602391048 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, November 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Harvard has a reputation for turning out notable lawyers, doctors, politicians, and scientistsâbut not exactly for producing professional ballplayers.

Parenting Young Athletes The Ripken Way: Ensuring the Best Experience for Your Kids in Any Sport

The former Baltimore Orioles baseball star shares his concerns about how youth sports have become more competitive than fun, in a guide for parents and coaches that explains how to avoid counter-productive coaching practices.

By Ripken and Rick Wolff

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9781592402205 | Gotham Books, April 5, 2007, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The former Baltimore Orioles baseball star shares his concerns about how youth sports have become more competitive than fun, in a guide for parents and coaches that explains how to avoid counter-productive coaching practices.

Parenting Young Athletes the Ripken Way: Ensuring the Best Experience for Your Kids in Any Sports

The record-breaking former Baltimore Orioles baseball star shares his concerns about how youth baseball has become more competitive than fun, in a guide for parents and coaches that explains how to avoid counter-productive coaching practices and loss intolerance. 75,000 first printing.

By Cal Ripken and Rick Wolff

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9781592401819 | Gotham Books, April 6, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Few athletes embody sportsmanship and class as perfectly as Cal Ripken, Jr.

Sports Parenting Edge

A guide for parents on ways to help their children get the most out of their sports experiences offers advice on such topics as picking the right sports, balancing school work and sports, and judging a child's potential.

By Rick Wolff

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Hardcover:

9780762415892 | Running Pr Book Pub, September 3, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A guide for parents on ways to help their children get the most out of their sports experiences offers advice on such topics as picking the right sports, balancing school work and sports, and judging a child's potential.

A Thing or Two About Baseball

Product Description: Baseball is still America's game. But the rules of youth baseball are not the same as those in the major leagues. Parents need an easy way to learn the specifics so they can help young athletes build a team that plays well together and has fun...read more

By David Fischer and Rick Wolff (foreword by)

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9780970457110 | A Thing or Two Media, March 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Baseball is still America's game.

A Thing or Two About Soccer

Product Description: Soccer is the most popular game in the world and the third most popular sport for US youth under the age of 18. More than 17.6 million youth participants play soccer each year. But most parents in this country did not grow up playing the game...read more

By James Buckley, Michael Teitelbaum and Rick Wolff (foreword by)

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9780970457103 | A Thing or Two Media, March 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Soccer is the most popular game in the world and the third most popular sport for US youth under the age of 18.

A Thing or Two About Golf

Product Description: Book by Dennis, Larry, Irwin, James

By Larry Dennis and Rick Wolff (foreword by)

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9780970457127 | A Thing or Two Media, March 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Dennis, Larry, Irwin, James

Good Sports

By Rick Wolff

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9781585181964 | Coaches Choice, May 1, 2000, cover price $12.95

Coaching Kids for Dummies

The Sports Illustrated columnist shows coaches and parents how to free up their children's athletic potential and allow them to shine on the field. Original. (view table of contents)

By Rick Wolff

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9780764551970 | For Dummies, March 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Provides information for the novice coach on responsibilities such as team meetings and practice sessions, and offers tips on dealing with difficult parents and communicating effectively.

Good Sports: The Concerned Parent's Guide to Competitive Youth Sports

Product Description: Author Rick Wolff has written this book to help parents and coaches avoid the pitfalls surrounding the increasingly competitive environment of youth sports while helping children enjoy a positive, challenging and educational sports experience. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Rick Wolff

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9781571670489 | 2 edition (Sports Pub, August 1, 1998), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Author Rick Wolff has written this book to help parents and coaches avoid the pitfalls surrounding the increasingly competitive environment of youth sports while helping children enjoy a positive, challenging and educational sports experience.

Don't Worry Stop Sweating... Use Deodorant!

This parody of self-help books provides common-sense advice designed to make the author rich, such as 'stop thinking about your thoughts'

By Richard Sandomir and Rick Wolff

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9780836265095 | Andrews McMeel Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: This parody of self-help books provides common-sense advice designed to make the author rich, such as 'stop thinking about your thoughts'

The Training Camp Guide to Sports Parenting: Encouraging Your Kids on and Off the Field

Offers advice to help parents face the challenges of raising athletic children, discussing how to motivate kids and provide them with positive sports experiences

By Rick Wolff

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9780671011987 | Byron Preiss Multimedia Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Offers advice to help parents face the challenges of raising athletic children, discussing how to motivate kids and provide them with positive sports experiences

How to Make Pro Scouts Notice You: The Insider's Guide to Big League Scouting

Product Description: Here's what the pros are saying about this classic volume on how baseball scouts find "diamonds in the rough"! "I had no idea I was being scouted when Al Goldis saw me playing amateur ball in New York's Central Park league. If I had this book then, it would have given me further insight into the standards required for breaking into the big leagues...read more

By Al Goldis and Rick Wolff

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9781570282003 | Masters Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Here's what the pros are saying about this classic volume on how baseball scouts find "diamonds in the rough"!

Playing Better Baseball

Shares the tricks and tips of playing better baseball for serious players and their coaches (view table of contents)

By Rick Wolff

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9780873229364 | Human Kinetics, February 14, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Shares the tricks and tips of playing better baseball for serious players and their coaches

Life for Real Dummies: "Life for the Totally Clueless"

A tongue-in-cheek parody of the For Dummies series provides a hilarious reference guide to a broad spectrum of life's baffling mysteries, including sex, religion, television, etiquette, taxes, and golf. Original. 100,000 first printing.

By Richard Sandomir and Rick Wolff

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9780060952075, titled "Life for Real Dummies: "Life for the Totally Clueless"" | Perennial, October 1, 1996, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A tongue-in-cheek parody of the 'For Dummies' series covers life's baffling mysteries, including sex, religion, television, etiquette, taxes, and golf

Ted Williams

A biography of the outstanding Boston Red Sox slugger

By Rick Wolff

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9780791012284 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $10.01 | About this edition: A biography of the outstanding Boston Red Sox slugger

Library:

9780791011942 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A biography of the outstanding Boston Red Sox slugger

Good Sports: The Concerned Parent's Guide to Little League and Other Competitive Youth Sports

A sports psychologist and former professional athlete offers advice for making organized sports a safe and enjoyable experience for children

By Rick Wolff

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9780440504351, titled "Good Sports: The Concerned Parent's Guide to Little League and Other Competitive Youth Sports" | Dell Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A sports psychologist and former professional athlete offers advice for making organized sports a safe and enjoyable experience for children

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781567030310, titled "Good Sports: The Concerned Parent's Guide to Little League and Other Competitive Youth Sports" | High Top Sports Production, March 1, 1995, cover price $16.95

Golf Dirty Tricks: 50 Ways to Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way to Victory/Book and Golf Tees

Product Description: At last! A guide for real golfers who've had it with trying to win the old-fashioned way. Instead of earning it, Golf Dirty Tricks shows golfers how to lie, cheat, and steal their way to victory. After all, it's not how you play the game, it's how few strokes actually get recorded on the scorecard that make for golfing pleasure...read more

By Jim Becker, Barrie Maguire (illustrator), Andy Mayer and Rick Wolff

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9780836242249 | Andrews McMeel Pub, March 1, 1994, cover price $9.95 | also contains Golf Dirty Tricks: 50 Ways to Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way to Victory/Book and Golf Tees | About this edition: At last!

Sports Illustrated: A Parody Issue

A corps of humorists and sportswriters combine their talents to present this parody of the magazine, featuring send-up articles such as Sportsman of the year, Don King

By Rick Wolff

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9780836267068 | Andrews McMeel Pub, May 1, 1991, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A corps of humorists and sportswriters combine their talents to present this parody of the magazine, featuring send-up articles such as Sportsman of the year, Don King

Brooks Robinson

A biography of the Oriole third baseman whose lifetime fielding average is tops among third basemen in major league history (view table of contents)

By Rick Wolff

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9780791011867 | Chelsea House Pub, October 1, 1990, cover price $18.65 | About this edition: A biography of the Oriole third baseman whose lifetime fielding average is tops among third basemen in major league history

Breaking into the Big Leagues

An overview of the sport offers advice for the novice player

By Al Goldis and Rick Wolff

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9780880112987 | Leisure Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An overview of the sport offers advice for the novice player

Baseball...a Laughing Matter!

By Warner Fusselle, Bill Wilson (illustrator), Rick Wolff and Brian Zevnik

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9780892042326 | Sporting News, March 1, 1987, cover price $9.95

The Psychology of Winning Baseball: A Coach's Handbook

By Rick Wolff

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Hardcover:

9780137367115 | Parker, May 1, 1986, cover price $27.95

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