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Pedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7, 2021, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons.\nPedro, a proud Cuban American, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had existed between U.S.-born players and the Latin Americans now so important to the game’s vitality and future growth. He was also a family man who loved to talk about his three children, 
Sierra, Dante and 
Rio, a Boston Red Sox prospect. Pedro was universally known as a smiling presence who brought out the best in people. His humanity and generosity of spirit shaped countless lives, including one of his ESPN bosses, 
Rob King, who was so moved by Pedro’s advice to him―“Remember who you are”―that he printed up the words and posted them on the wall of his office in Bristol. King is one of a diverse collection of contributors whose personal essays turn Pedro’s shocking death into an occasion to reflect on the deeper truths of life we too often overlook. Part 
The Pride of Havana and part 
Tuesdays With Morrie, part 
The Tender Bar and part 
Ball Four, this is the rare essay collection that reads like a novel, full of achingly honest emotion and painful insights, a book about friendship, a book about standing for something, a book about joy and love.\nFormer 
New York Times writer 
Jack Curry writes about Pedro’s passion for live music, and former 
Sports Illustrated writer 
Tim Kurkjian brings alive spring-training basketball games with executives like 
Sandy Anderson and 
Billy Beane and Pedro right in the mix. Detroit manager 
AJ Hinch and formers Texas manager 
Ron Washington both reveal that in their darkest hours Pedro gave them some of the best advice of their lives.\nHall of Famers 
Dennis Eckersley, Tony La Russa, Peter Gammons, Ross Newhan, Tracy Ringolsby and 
Dan Shaughnessy are among the contributors. So are likely future Hall of Famers 
Max Scherzer and 
Dusty Baker. Pulitzer-Prize-winning 
Washington Post war correspondent 
Steve Fainaru, award-winning writers from 
Howard Bryant and 
Mike Barnicle to 
Tim Keown, Ken Rosenthal and 
Dave Sheinin also contribute. Rounding out the mix are current and former ESPN stars including 
Rachel Nichols, Shelley M. Smith, Peter Gammons, Bob Ley and 
Keith Olbermann.\nThis is a book to rekindle in any lapsed fan a love of going to the ballpark, but it’s also a wakeup call that transcends sports. To any journalist, worn down by the demands of a punishing job, to anyone anywhere, pummeled by pandemic times and the dark mood of the country in recent years, these essays will light a spark to seize every opportunity to make a difference, in your work and in the lives of people who matter to you. 
 Review 
Advance praise for Remember Who You Are\n"Pedro Gomez was as kind as he was talented. I can think of no one else in the industry who would have inspired this many heartfelt essays by this diverse a group of writers, ballplayers, coaches, and front office executives. Everyone loved and respected him. And while he left this earth way too soon, his legacy will live on through his children and in the pages of this book." ― 
Molly Knight, Author, 
The Best Team Money Can Buy\n"The words in this collection share a common source―while they were crafted with the head, they originated from the heart. The Gomez Rules are the Commandments for those who cover the game. All who have lived the baseball life should have followed all at some point. They should be etched in tablet."―Broadcaster 
Ted Robinson\n" 
Remember Who You Are pulls together heartfelt and eloquent tributes to a man who was more than just America’s foremost baseball journalist, more than just an embodiment of the American dream, but a bona fide inspiratio

Remember Who You Are: What Pedro Gomez Showed Us About Baseball and Life

MARTIN, Frank

Sheinin, Dave

Keown, Tim

Jenkins, Bruce

Nichols, Rachel

Kreidler, Mark

Scherzer, Max

Ley, Bob

Gomez, Pedro

Gammons, Peter

Bryant, Howard

Barnicle, Mike

Murphy, Brian

Janes, Chelsea

Baker, Dusty

KING, ROB

Gomez, Rio

Newhan, Ross

Daniels, Jon

Rosenthal, Ken

Olney, Buster

Smith, Shelley M.

Quinn, T.J.

Boras, Scott

Alderson, Sandy

Shaughnessy, Dan

Swanson, Mike

Carr, Robin

La Russa, Tony

La Canfora, Jason

Ratto, Ray

Washington, Ron

Culpepper, Chuck

Ringolsby, Tracy

Black, Bud

Kurkjian, Tim

Curry, Jack

Zagaris, Michael

Begala, Paul

Mangin, Brad

Schaap, Jeremy

Passan, Jeff

Melvin, Bob

Ostler, Scott

King III, George A.

Francona, Terry

Goold, Derrick

Coffey, Alex

McAdam, Sean

Snitker, Brian

Kurland, Brett

Gonzalez, Alden

Morales, Sarina

Bretón, Marcos

D'Anna, John

Fainaru, Steve

Hernandez, Orlando "El Duque"

Gomez, Dante

Geracie, Bud

Eckersley, Dennis

Hinch, AJ

Olbermann, Keith

Self-Help

Wellstone Books

When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast exhaled--and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the country--"many of America's most thoughtful voices," as Jon Meacham puts it--captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture in American life, and helps point toward a way forward to a nation less divided. An eclectic lineup of contributors--fromRosanna Arquette, Susan Bro andGeneral Wesley Clark toKeith Olbermann, Stewart O'Nan andAnthony Scaramucci--puts a year of transition into perspective, and summons the anxieties and hopes so many have for better times ahead. As award-winning columnistMary C. Curtis writes in the lead essay, "Saying you're not interested in politics is dangerous because, like it or not, politics is interested in you." NovelistChristopher Buckley, a former speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, laments, "The Republican Senate, with one exception, has become a stay of ovine, lickspittle quislings, degenerate descendants of such giants as Everett Dirksen, Barry Goldwater, Howard Baker and John McCain." Nero Award-winning mystery novelistStephen Mack Jones writes, to Donald Trump, "Remember: You live in my house. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is my house. My ancestors built it at a cost of blood, soul and labor. I pay my taxes every year to feed you, clothe you and your family and staff and fly you around the country and the world in my tricked-out private jet. If you violate any aspect of your four-year lease--any aspect--Lord Jesus so help me, I will do everything in my power to kick yo narrow ass to the curb." As PublisherSteve Kettmann writes in the Introduction: "The hope is that in putting out these glimpses so quickly, giving them an immediacy unusual in book publishing, we can help in the mourning for all that has been lost, help in the healing (of ourselves and of our country), and help in the pained effort, like moving limbs that have gone numb from inactivity, to give new life to our democracy. We stared into the abyss, tottered on the edge, and a record-setting surge of voting and activism delivered us from thevery real threat of plunging into autocracy."

Now What?: The Voters Have Spoken―Essays on Life After Trump

History

Buckley, Christopher

O'Nan, Stewart

Clark, Wesley K.

Sharpton, Al

Riggleman, Denver

Powell, Michael

Hruska, Bronwen

Scaramucci, Anthony

Jones, Stephen Mack

Kettmann, Steve

McAuliffe, Terry

Walsh, Joan

Cullen, Art

Arena, Bruce

Heilbrunn, Jacob

Curtis, Mary C.

Ulriksen, Mark

Shannon, Angela Wright

Rayman, Will

Bro, Susan

Tucker, Cynthia

O'Malley, Nancy E.

Tsai, Addie

Arquette, Rosanna

Ibish, Hussein

Renteria, Amanda

Salter, Stephanie

Sovern, Doug

Korach, Ken

Cauvin, J-L

Chahal, Kuji

Hitchens, Antonia

Lear, Sophia

Americas

For his eighteenth birthday, Dusty Baker's parents gave him a great present: Two tickets to the Monterey Pop Festival of June 1967, a three-day event featuring more than thirty bands, and use of the family station wagon for the weekend so young Dusty could drive down from Sacramento to the Monterey Bay Area. He was another young person, trying to take it all in, sleeping on the beach with his buddy, having the time of his life soaking up the vibe and every different musical style represented there. Baker's lifelong love of music was set in motion, his wide-ranging, eclectic tastes, everything from country to hip-hop. He also caught the Jimi Hendrix Experience, who put on such a show that to this day Baker calls Hendrix the most exciting performer he's ever seen. He went on to years of friendship with musicians from B.B. King and John Lee Hooker to Elvin Bishop. This account grabs a reader from page one and never lets up.

Kiss the Sky: My Weekend in Monterey for the Greatest Rock Concert Ever (Music That Changed My Life, 1)

Arts & Photography

Music

When her mother makes eating lunch a condition of going out to play, Glitter Girl's cheese jumps off its sandwich and runs away.

Glitter Girl And the Crazy Cheese

Children's Books

Hollon, Frank

Grace, Mary

Literature & Fiction

Macadam Cage Pub

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