Each year two million youngsters play youth baseball, unwittingly stepping into an arena where their characters will be set in concrete, where their roles in life will be unequivocally fixed. Nothing a kid has ever experienced will be as traumatic or pivotal, and the consequences are as predictable as high tides, sunsets, and Red Sox disasters. Each of the nine positions produces a unique personality type. Take the shortstop, for example. Half the team's spirit is crammed into the scrawny, scrappy spitfire who stakes out the dirt between second and third base. Shortstops are scary people. Given a choice of enemies between the IRS and the Navy Seals on one hand or an eight-year-old shortstop on the other, take your chances with the feds. These character traits stick, and in this book you'll see why the best FBI agents are former catchers; why third basemen drive pickup trucks; and why guys who never played baseball as kids open sports bars.

Its Where You Played the Game: How Youth Baseball Determines the Personality of the American Male

Sports & Outdoors

Ryan, Mike

Ryan, Luke

Baseball

Henry Holt Co.

This booklet of poetry, written by former Army Ranger Luke Ryan, explores the nature of violence, war, and the contrast between evil and courage found on the battlefield. War is an eternal thing, as basic to human nature as eating food, as physical as sex, and as spiritual as prayer, and these are the ideas communicated here in a way that anyone can resonate with, veteran or not.

The Gun and the Scythe: Poetry by an Army Ranger

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Independently published

Four years after an apocalyptic event known as "the Red," a 15-year-old Tyler Ballard struggles with the death of his brother following a skirmish with a neighboring town over resources. He joins the East Tampa Militia in an attempt to find vengeance, but discovers a web of circumstances that are not as simple as his fractured heart may have wished. 
Tyler's journey illustrates the discovery of war and those involved in it - from the soldiers in the dirt to the politicians barking orders and pulling strings. 
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The First Marauder is book 1 of 3 in Luke Ryan's 'Post-Red' series. 
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Luke Ryan is a third culture kid, a veteran, a marketing nerd, and an author who aims to make sense of his experiences through made-up stories and poetry.

The First Marauder

Genre Fiction

Dead Reckoning Collective

A Moment of Violence

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