Readers score their own hot tickets to Deirdre Martin's Same Rink, Next Year; Julia London's Lucky Charm; Annette Blair's You Can't Steal First; and Geri Buckley's Can't Catch This.
"I want to be in Marketing, PR or Community Relations"...that is the phrase heard countless times from candidates looking to land a job with a professional sports team. The problem is those positions are where the fewest opportunities exisit. Most openings in professional sports are in Ticket Sales, an exciting career start with unlimited potential. The world of professional sports is changing. Teams are struggling more and more every day to sell tickets. With escalating costs in all aspects of the business, teams need to fill their stadiums with ticket buyers. Through this book, you will learn everything you need to know about acquiring a job and succeeding in Ticket Sales. Dispel the myths about sales, learn the facts, get the job and Break Into Sports.
Discusses the commercial aspects of professional sports, examining endorsement contracts, sponsorship, broadcasting rights, salaries, agents, and more.
Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you’ve seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-a-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air, through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular—and always breathtaking to look at. In fact, picking a favorite amongst these 26 stunning illustrations proved so difficult, we’ve decided to release this book with six different jackets, each highlighting a different piece of this astonishing artwork. And even after the first perusal, both children and adults alike will go back over these images again and again in search of the items hidden cleverly within them. At the end of the book, a detailed map of this incredible park is also included for hours more of fascinating fun. Tickets to Ride is the debut of a major new talent in children’s picture books. We invite you to tender your ticket and come along for a remarkable ride.
This is the third novel narrated by Henry Wiggen, a six-foot three-inch, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths. Henry, who began as a rookie in The Southpaw and developed into a pro in Bang the Drum Slowly, is a mature veteran in A Ticket for a Seamstitch. A seamstress from "somewhere out West" writes to Henry, her hero, that she will be in New York to watch the Mammoths play on the Fourth of July. When she arrives in New York, both the married Henry and his pal, the very unmarried Thurston "Piney" Woods, are at a loss as to what to do with their visitor. The two men finally do the decent thing: they take the seamstress to the automat for dinner. In so doing, they both learn some things worth knowing, although the distraction undoubtedly affects their performance in the big game. In the essay "Easy Does It Not" Mark Harris describes the origins of this wonderfully comic novel.
Beyond the inside jokes, the fake bits and the banter, "The Ticket: Full Disclosure" gives you the complete low-down on how "The Ticket" got started. From the boys at the back of the bus to one of the most imitated sports talk radio stations on the air today, get the full story as told by the guys you tune in to hear on 1310 AM every day. On the occasion of "The Ticket's" 15th anniversary, Ticketheads finally have a book revealing all the history and behind-the-scenes hi jinks of the Marconi-winning radio station. The ultimate bathroom book for every good, strong P1, this is the true, unvarnished "Ticket" story of how Mike Rhyner and the gang evolved from press-box yuk monkeys to forming the core of one of the nation's most popular radio stations.
The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. Most of the team were drafted into professional baseball. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, would reunite as teammates on a National League All-Star roster. But Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Out is more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled.
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chick Hearn, Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket, Paul Sunderland, Spero Dedes, Joel Meyers, Bill Macdonald. Excerpt: Bill Macdonald is an American sportscaster who works for Fox Sports West /Prime Ticket . Macdonald joined the network, then called Prime Ticket, at its inception in 1985.Currently, Macdonald hosts the following pre-game and in-game shows:He is also the former host of the Los Angeles Kings ' pregame show Break the Ice and calls play-by-play for Los Angeles Avengers Arena Football, UCLA college football and basketball for FSN Prime Ticket. He has also been the host of FSN's Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament coverage at the Staples Center for the past several years. For the past three years, Macdonald has hosted the UCLA Press Conference Show, with Matt Stevens in 2005 and 2006, and James Washington in 2007.Macdonald called the game (January 22, 2006) in which Kobe Bryant scored 81 points, the second-highest total in NBA history. He filled in for Joel Meyers , who had another broadcasting commitment that day.Bill Macdonald has three sons, and resides in Newport Beach.A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn (November 27, 1916 August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster . Known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association , the legendary Hearn is remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, inventing colorful phrases such as slam dunk , air ball , and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular, and for broadcasting 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Additionally, Hearn started the now common tradition of estimating the distance of shots taken.Of note is that most of Hearn's games in the tele...
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