Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball's Lingo

by Suzy Beamer Bohnert

Overview

Imagine receiving an invitation to your boss's party to watch a baseball game. Horror strikes because you don't know the first thing about the sport-or maybe you'd like to know more. Or, you love your job, and you want to impress your supervisor and colleagues. But what's a foul ball? Why are those men running on the field and charging about wildly?

Before you go nuts trying to learn the language of baseball on your own, read Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball's Lingo to understand the game. Let this book familiarize you with the expressions the broadcasters use on TV and radio; grasp what's happening when those men on the field in blue shirts thrust their arms high above their heads. One hint. They're not beginning a cheer, such as the wave.

Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball's Lingo documents the action you'll see on television or hear on the radio, or in the stands, and the essentials of the game. A handy reference covering the most important phrases and words used in today's game at the pro and college level, this concise dictionary features simple entries.

With this resource, readers will never again be at a loss for the meaning of a baseball phrase or feel foolish because they don't know what's going on out on the field.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012516176
Publisher:	B&B Publishing
Publication date:	04/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	84
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Suzy Beamer Bohnert played sports during her youth, participating in leagues, playing in gyms, and gathering the neighborhood kids to join in pickup games until the streetlights were too dim to light the sporting site.

She launched her writing career as a newspaper sports editor. During that job, Suzy interviewed numerous coaches, athletes, and fans about sports, putting complicated games into simple words. Her books include Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball's Lingo; Game-Day Goddess: Learning Basketball's Lingo; Game-Day Goddess: Learning Football's Lingo; Game-Day Youth: Learning Baseball's Lingo; Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo; Game-Day Youth: Learning Football's Lingo; and the fiction children's book, Binkie Learns to Fly.

An author of many acclaimed books for readers, her award-winners include Game-Day Youth: Learning Baseball's Lingo, a Mom's Choice Award-winner for "Most Outstanding Nonfiction Children's Book"; Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo, named Best Books for Teen Boys by the New Hampshire Library Media Association; Game-Day Youth: Learning Football's Lingo, given the Honorable Mention Award for nonfiction in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards; and the Game-Day Goddess Sports Series, 3-Volume Set, selected as Best Books for College Students by StudentAdvisor.com, a Washington Post Co. Game-Day Goddess: Learning Baseball's Lingo, Game-Day Youth: Learning Basketball's Lingo, Game-Day Youth: Learning Baseball's Lingo, and Game-Day Youth: Learning Football's Lingo were winners of the Readers' Favorite Five-Star Award.

The recipient of nineteen national awards for writing excellence, including the Hermes Creative, Ragan Communications, and MarCom Awards, she lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband, Randall, and son and daughter, where she helps coach her kids' basketball, softball, and soccer teams.

Editorial Reviews

"A great idea for the baseball beginner, executed with an engaging, breezy sensibility. It has terms both basic and arcane, giving the novice a chance to learn the lingo and talk the talk even better than the pros. It's a great way for anyone to get a real feel for the language of baseball, which is, of course, the language of America." --Scott Nathanson, Little League Baseball coach

Little League Baseball coach - Scott Nathanson

"Beginners and those familiar with baseball will enjoy this upbeat, refreshing look at America's pastime. Don't go another inning without reading this helpful guide that will increase your knowledge about the game." --Grand Slam Baseball Camp

Grand Slam Baseball Camp - Grand Slam

"If there is anyone who certainly knows how to speak sports lingo with the very best of them, it's Suzy Beamer Bohnert. The proof is in the books the Game-Day Goddess has written."

Game-Day Goddess - Arlington Sun

"Before you go nuts trying to learn the language of baseball on your own, read the Game-Day Goddess three-book series by Suzy Beamer Bohnert to understand the game. Let these books familiarize you with the expressions the broadcasters use on TV and radio."

Game-Day Goddess - Athletics Administration

"Hopefully by reading this book the wives, girlfriends, and mothers in the stands will be more knowledgeable about the rules before they complain about an umpire's call." --Jim Rixse, youth and men's league baseball umpire

youth and men's league baseball umpire - Jim Rixse