<p>The Birth of Hot Rodding was selected by the American Auto Racing Writers &amp; Broadcasters Assoc. as its choice for the best book on auto racing for 2003. Subtitled: The Story of the Dry Lakes Era."The nearest thing to it, as I thought then, would be like landing on the moon!"--Wally Parks, describing the dry lakesIn the garages, shops, and fertile minds of 1920s car buffs in search of more power and speed, the hot rodding movement was born. A hot bed of this early quest for speed sprang up when the first Southern California hot rod builder hauled his creation over the ridge of mountains and opened up the throttle on the Mojave Desert's dry lakes.The dry lake beds of the desert provided the common denominator, the measuring stick against which all hot rod builders would judge their modified machines. These dry lakes were in secluded spots where this creative breed of car folk could come together to share ideas, learn from the masters, and compete to be the fastest for the weekend.These wide open havens for speed and freedom nestled within the mountains north of Los Angeles provided nature's perfect racing surface: perfectly flat, free of obstacles, with miles to go in any direction. Places like Muroc, El Mirage, and Harper were transformed from ancient prehistoric no-man's-land to the weekend testing grounds of speed. Author Robert Genat brings together stories of the golden age of hot rodding from the men and women who pioneered the sport in The Birth of Hot Rodding. Profiles of the most influential racers, cars, and events accompany original photography to create a definitive history of hot rod racing on the dry lakes. With a foreword by Wally Parks, NHRA founder and chairman of the NHRA Motorsports Museum, The Birth of Hot Rodding encapsulates a unique piece of racing history.</p>

The Birth of Hot Rodding: The Story of the Dry Lakes Era

History

Cox, Don

Genat, Robert

Americas

Motorbooks Intl

Who was the best baseball team of all time? This timeless question can most effectively be answered through comprehensive analysis of baseball statistics. Over the course of a season, winning teams tend to score more runs while allowing fewer than their opponents. The greater the difference in runs per game, the more a team can be expected to win. Comparing this data for the top five percent of Major League nines from 1901 through 2014, this book argues that runs above league average is the best statistic for ranking teams. The author sorts 220 teams by era, franchise and skills--hitting, fielding, baserunning, pitching--evaluates their strengths and weaknesses and assigns numerical values to each player's skills to demonstrate how they contributed to team performance.

All-Time Nines: Baseball's Greatest Teams as Determined by Analytics

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

McFarland Company

What a treat from this lively band of wordsmiths and storytellers, The Writers' Circle of St. Croix (in the US Virgin Islands)! This volume, Changing Times is the third in a series, following Other Times, Other Cultures in 2006 and Limin' Times in 2009. It is a treasure of styles and voices, of travel in place and time, of celebrations of St. Croix and of life and beauty. Brace yourself, however. These Writers know no bounds. They will tear at your heart: in the Maroons, in long lost love, with the secret tragedy of a family's immigration, in coping with the slow death of a loved one, in facing the fading of abilities in old age, and through earthquake and the aftermath of a massacre. Yet be not afraid, these are done with grace and love, and lead us not into depression. Well, I admit that Roz's story Invisible Friend is downright spooky. There are travel stories that will tickle your fancy and funny bone: Marcia on a Moroccan road trip from hell, Preston on a crazy business adventure in Trinidad, and a Nova Scotian red squirrel's religious interpretation as I trucked him across the breadth of Canada and down the west coast of the US to his "heaven" in California. Patricia gives us three fine examples of medieval poetry forms applied to Crucian subjects, Al contributes another of his clever Sherlock Holmes tales, this one solving a murder in Danish St. Croix in the early 1900s, and Maud confesses the intimacies of an unusual love affair. Enjoy! -- Don Cox A posting in St. Croix Memories by Lisa Cantrell, provides an enthusiastic review: ". . . here is a great idea for anyone who likes to read (poetry and/or prose), who loves STX or is looking for a good holiday present for someone who does. Changing Times, a compilation of literary writings by the Writers' Circle of St Croix is now available and it is excellent. . . . The styles vary, the stories vary, the backgrounds of the writers are diverse and all of this makes this a wonderful collection. I received it on Friday and picked it up this morning and now breakfast will be late:-)."

Changing Times: The Writers' Circle of St. Croix

Literature & Fiction

Mathews, Richard

Gill, Patricia

Hughes, Rosamond

Jameson, Marcia

Rymsha, Alvin

Schneider, Priscilla

Tonks, Margery

Doane, Preston

World Literature

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Stories from the Sagebrush; Celebrating Northern Nevada at the Millennium (A Halcyon Imprint)

Nevada Humanities Committee

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