Home-run

Sylvester Coddmyer III was a pretty nice kid who grew up in a nice family. He was an only child at the age of 12. In the past year Sylvester had an almost perfect homerun season, he had Mr. baruth's coaching tips to help him get through. The next year came along and there was no Mr. Barthum to help him out. He started out as a bench warmer, if he ever got to play it would just be for an inning or so. One day on the way home from practice a man named Cheeko said do you want me to help you out a little. Sylvester said sure, they practiced about 4 times aweek and befor you know it Sylvester is back hitting homeruns. Inside Sylvester really wondered who this Cheeko guy was anyway.

Last season, Sylvester Codmyre III hit home runs every time but once, when he was up. But in his second season, again he started out slumping. Then he started hitting them back into home runs and he started being good at defense again. It is a good book because it's the second version but Sylvester has a different helper.

This is a wonderful story, and the beginning of a wonderful series. Megan is a young woman whose family background has left her emotionally scarred and fiercely independent. When a friend offers her the use of his summer cabin in the Utah mountains, Megan unexpectedly encounters there the only man in her life who has shown her true affection--and who loves her still--but who unknowingly betrayed her trust ten years ago.

Doug is extrordinary! He shows great patience and love as he helps Megan overcome her fears. He longs to be a family with Megan and their nine-year-old son, Jason, but first must help Megan let go of the ghosts of her past so she can learn to love and be loved.

I like the way Jennie Hansen set up the next story in this wonderful series by referring at the end to A.J.'s move to Alaska to work on a documentary film--and then at Megan's birthday party Doug's telling Megan that A.J. was not able to attend because he had promised to drive a friend's truck from Alaska to Utah for him, and it would take a couple of weeks. Throughout the book, I felt a bit sorry for A.J., since it was obvious he wanted Megan. Thank you, Jennie, for telling us A.J.'s story in this wonderful series. (Read them in order: Run Away Home, Journey Home, Coming Home)

Run Away Home will remain one of my all-time favorite books. The plot and characters are fanastic yet believable, and the reader becomes feels they are a part of the story as much as any of the characters. I read this in one sitting, forgetting about everything else. It is such an intriguing story, it can be read and re-read and not "get old." It deserves and easy 5 stars.

GREAT GREAT BOOK FOR ANY BASEBALL FAN[!]THE LEATHER BOUND WITH THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE GREAT HANK AARON IS A TRUE STEAL AT THE RETAIL PRICE[!] EVERY AARON FAN SHOULD OWN ONE... A GREAT READ[.]

Baseball Homerun Hitters is about the best the homerun hitters in baseball.Just to name a few,Lou Gehric,Babe Ruth,Roger Maris,Hank Aaron,Willie Mays etc.It talks about their life and their baseball carrers.I recomend you read about Mickey Mantle he is also in this book.This is a great book.

This book takes you from simply taking a sewing class to being able to run your own buisness. It details the steps you must follow for a successful buisness. If you are the kind of sewer who can manage your time wisely (the book even sets out a sample guide to help out) this is definately for you. "The Buisness of Teaching Sewing..." encourages you to do what you love and passing it on to others. A definate must for the sewer who wants to get started with his/her own buisness, whether large or small.

A very good book. I learned a great deal from it.

Growing up in Detroit, I was raised to be a Tigers fan. My dad taught me about baseball, and took me to games at "The Corner." It was there that my love of the game grew. I read Tom Stanton's first book, The Final Season, and enjoyed it greatly. In this book, I see Stanton's growth as a writer. Like a fine wine, Stanton gets better and better with age. This book offered great insight to not only Aaron's personal struggles during the Ruth chase, but also did a great job of placing the it in a broader context of the era. Stanton has done his homework, conducting interview after interview with the people who knew Aaron and lived the chase with him. This book has given me EVEN MORE respect for Hammerin' Hank, and changed the way I view the sport.

Stanton can hold his own among today's great literary talents, telling a compelling story in a prose reminiscient of Norman Maclean, all the while casting my memory back to a time when baseball was about more than money, life was much simpler (without the threat of Orange Alerts or Anthrax), and I was younger.

This book is not only a great tribute to Aaron, it is a great tribute to baseball, and to every fan who has ever dreamed of trotting the bases in the big leagues. I plan on getting it for my dad for father's day. A MUST read.

Growing up in Atlanta, I was a fan of my beloved Braves. Hank Aaron was my idol as a child, and I still vividly remember Aaron chasing Ruth's home run record in late 1973 and early 1974 (though it hardly seems it's 30 years already). Anyways, I saw Mr. Stanton on TV, promoting this book. Having read my fair share of baseball (and Aaron) books in my time, I thought I knew the story of Aaron's chase just as well as I knew my own life, which tends to be the case of the relationship between kids and the athletes they love. But I found out SOOO much more from this book than I ever expected to. Stanton brings the era and excitement of the chase back to life, triggering memories long forgotten. In an age of outrageous steroid abusing home run hitters like Bonds and Giambi, it's nice to read about a man who earned his spot in the hall of fame without the need of outside substances and without ever being showy like so many of today's younger players

Author Gerald Seymour's fictional world encompasses the moral, practical, and political grey zones of the conflicts being fought at the world's grittier edges. HOME RUN is a masterpiece of his writing.

As the book begins, a young Iranian woman, Juliette Eshraq, is publicly hanged to death on a crane in downtown Tabriz by the revolutionary government that had previously overthrown the Shah and executed the girl's father and uncle. The plot then skips forward several years, and Juliette's younger brother, Charlie, who'd escaped to California with his American mother, is now of age and on a mission of vengeance in the Old Country to kill those who murdered the rest of his family. Charlie is secretly run by a senior executive of MI-6, Mattie Furniss, Head of the Iran Desk at Century House, friend of the Eshraq family from his time as Station Officer in Tehran during the Shah's rule, and Charlie's mentor. After carrying out three assassinations, Charlie must now return to Britain to get the expensive, advanced, weaponry needed to finish the job. As Charlie tells Mattie, money is no problem.

In the meantime, Lucy Barnes, teenage daughter of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Defense, dies of a heroin overdose in a squalid London flat. In his rage and grief, the Secretary prevails on his friend and government colleague, the Home Secretary, to flog the drug enforcement unit of Customs and Excise to exert maximum effort to find the pusher, distributor, and source. In the course of investigation, it's learned that the heroin is from Iran and brought into England by a man known only as Charlie Persia.

As the final piece in the plot's set-up, Furniss is ordered by MI-6's Director General to Iran's periphery to meet with his agents and improve the quality of information coming across. Mattie is code-named "Dolphin". But, because of a leak in Britain's Bahrain Embassy, Iran's counter-intelligence unit knows Dolphin is coming, and plans accordingly.

A major component of HOME RUN is a conflict between two agencies of Her Majesty's government in which dedicated and well-meaning civil servants are ground up in the cogs of political maneuvering, and the ostensible "bad guy" squeezes through the crack. The battle on the home front makes almost irrelevant the machinations and brutality of Iranian counter-intelligence, though, by the end of the book, the reader is left to wonder which side administered the greater damage to our hero, the servants of the Mullahs or those of the Queen.

HOME RUN is the most complex and deliciously constructed of Seymour's many thrillers that I've read to date. Indeed, the reader is thrown a red herring at the beginning as to the identity of the storyline's chief protagonist. In any case, Seymour's forte is blurring the lines between the Good and the Evil; the former doesn't always win, nor does the latter always lose, to the satisfaction of Justice. The victory is usually pyrrhic. The plot resembles real life, and, in that regard, is eminently satisfying.

I'll soon run out of unread Seymour novels, and I shall be inconsolable.

Like all the titles in the Kinetic City series, this book sneaks some real science into a fun story line. This particular book, "Home Run Has-Been," is especially timely, because the Super Crew kids try to help a Mark McGuire-type slugger break out of a slump. Buy this book for any kid who reads Animorphs or other books at that level, and don't tell them it's good for them!

If you have a child under 12, read this tale of twists and turns. Kerby Maxwell and his brainy pal Fenton once again turn to the mysterious Mrs. Graymalkin and her seemingly magical chemistry set. Everything goes wrong in their plans, but all turns out rosy, with everyone a bit wiser.

If you love baseball, you'll love this. Just one problem, doesn't include 70 HR season.