Baseball and flying. Two great passions. Many pilots have also been great baseball players and vice versa. For retired USAF fighter pilot Lt. Col. Scott Weaver, flying became the gateway to discovering a world of baseball and standout players in the UK, Argentina, Australia, and across the globe. In this book, you will:•Learn that they really do have baseball in France.•Find out how to organize an ex-pat team in Argentina.•Learn how to get your dream baseball job overseas. Discover how to realize your Argentinian baseball dream by studying abroad.•Learn how to travel outside your comfort zone. What do flying and baseball have in common? “The Pilot and the Pitcher” will tell you.•Emotional intelligence•How to set goals•Mental focus•Being cool under pressure.Whether a fighter pilot, coach, or business executive, the people you work with will influence the success of your mission, team, or endeavor. The qualities I’ve noted above are the ones I believe influence a successful mindset and help make a better wingman. Whether I’m looking for a partner, co-pilot, teammate, or colleague who will help guide my mission to a successful end, these are the qualities I seek. With time and growth comes change. So be the leader and mentor our wingman with the qualities, values, and mindset to move our squadron, team, business, or organization forward. So enjoy my personal story and the stories of my worldwide contributors, about family and finding your passion.

Words have power...to help, to hurt, to heal, to bring hope. Imagine the impact when words come from your soulmate, infused with undying love, from beyond this world! That's the reality Noreen embraces when her husband of fifty years, long since deceased, returns with urgent warnings, proclamations of love and advice to assist her through her own impending death experience. He brings miraculous gifts: directions for unbridled forgiveness and one inspired present for her last Christmas on Earth. Will she believe in him, trust him, recognize his wisdom even though it will take her beyond what she thought she knew about the afterlife, but didn't? This book is not a work of fiction. The Words of Our Father is a poignant, emotional love story that chronicles the lives of one family through the generations as they hold fast to each other and God through the tumultuous burdens of their world. Their lives are filled with strife, pain, infertility, the death of a child, a debilitating accident, the threat of financial ruin, sibling rifts, alcoholism, and horrific acts of nature. Together, Ken and Noreen fight to shield their six children from the ravages of the real world by cocooning them in love, theirs and God's. They find joy in each other and the simple pleasures of life as they create a legacy of love so strong that it transcends the boundaries between life and death. "For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope" (Jeremiah 29:11)

The Holy Trinity of American Sports explores how football, baseball, and basketball interact to illustrate civil religion in the United States. These three sports mark movement through one year in the country, providing extended seasons to supplement holidays like Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. Year after year, they generate ritual actions of daily, weekly, yearly, and once-in-a-lifetime significance. Football, baseball, and basketball portray three core stories of national worldview. Football depicts stories about the realities of life within history, while baseball expresses mythic aspiration for an ideal future. Basketball presents narrative of irreversible progress, story of fast-paced movement to highly productive conditions. Through stories of life, the three games convey doctrines about the source of truth, where to find knowledge of truths, and how to solve problems. Beyond doctrinal convictions, they disclose ethical beliefs of the nation for the worst, best, and most common situations. Functioning as a unit, the sports trinity communicates commitments to certain social arrangements, offering directives for interaction with people outside and inside the country. Football, baseball, and basketball possess great importance in the United States because they provide comprehensive and detailed illustration of American beliefs.

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