The Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants competed against one another in the World Series for the first time in 1989-but the Series would be remembered for a different reason. Shortly before the scheduled start of game three, the largest Bay Area earthquake since 1906 occurred. The game fortunately had reduced rush hour traffic, and the national media coverage was able to quickly shift from the Series to the earthquake. Yet the role of baseball in the disaster was not finished. After much debate, the World Series would resume in an attempt to re-establish normalcy.

Three Weeks in October

Bill Mandel and Bruce Jenki Ron Fimrite

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Damn Right I've Got the Blues: Buddy Guy and the Blues Roots of Rock-and-Roll

Donald E. Wilcock

Buddy Guy

M12G0364 Tiny Shipping Ding on Front Cover Signed by Larry Paper Publisher: Woodford Press,U.S. (1999) Language: English ISBN-10: 0942627547 ISBN-13: 978-0942627541 Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces

Larry Guest Lite: Glib Slants on Sports from the Orlando Sentinel's Award-Winning Columnist and Humorist

Guest, Larry

Sports & Outdoors

In addition to being lifelong friends, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake are authors with reputations for writing best-sellers like Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, and Harvey Penick's Little Red Book (which has sold more than 2.7 million copies).Now Woodford is pleased to bring back into print this 25-year-old collaboration between the two authors -- a biting satire with a prescience even Nostradamus would admire.Limo is a hilarious romp that foretells what television 25 years ago would turn into by the time the new millennium rolled around. The main character, Frank Mallory, is a high-powered network TV executive charged with developing primetime programming for Chambers Broadcasting Company (CBC-TV). The focus of his energies is a breakthrough documentary-style program called Just Up the Street, which observes the typical home life of four American families. (Today, of course, the concept has been popularized by shows like Cops, America's Funniest Home Videos and MTV's The Real World.)To make CBC's TV dream a reality, Mallory must juggle his boss (who likes to be called The Big Guy), his estranged wife (who thinks psychotherapy can explain why her husband is ambitious), and the myriad of daily personal and professional pitfalls on the inside track between corporate Manhattan and Hollywood sound stages.Filled with Jenkins' and Shrake's signature wit and insight, Limo has something for everyone -- from fans of today's real life-style programming to Baby Boomers and beyond. It's pop satire at its very best. With a laugh-out-loud line on every page, the book would make -- behold the irony -- a terrific sitcom.Jenkins and Shrake hold the reprint rights. Woodford isproud to put this book in its fold. And back into print.

Limo

Bud Shrake

Dan Jenkins

Literature & Fiction

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