Hank Aaron

Fritz Knapp

Description

As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, "Hank Aaron: Fearlessness" discusses the struggles and triumphs of Hank Aaron's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself. What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater understanding and appreciation of the virtues that these icons needed to get through life, but also an inspiration for the reader. Each story is followed by a small quotation from literature to amplify the meaning and application of the virtue, and each story is also followed by a series of study/review questions and other interactive activities to help the reader further understand the virtue and how to achieve it.This book is for people of all ages, but it makes for the perfect gift from parents to children or from adult mentors to their students.Other books in the Sports Virtues series include: Lou Gehrig: Appreciation Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo: Compassion Roberto Clemente: Dedication Susan Butcher: DeterminationPele: DevotionJohn Wooden: Discipline Mike Krzyzewski: EncouragementCal Ripken, Jr.: EnduranceWalter "Red" Barber: FairnessDennis Byrd: FaithfulnessHank Aaron: FearlessnessAmos Alonzo Stagg: Honesty Eric Liddell: Humility Arthur Ashe: Integrity Bill Bradley: IntelligenceJim Valvano: JoyfulnessDan O'Brien & Dave Johnson: KindnessDean Smith: LoyaltyHarvey Penick: ModestyBranch Rickey & Jackie Robinson: Nobility Althea Gibson: Persistence Clarence "Big House" Gaines, Sr.: RespectabilityJoan Benoit Samuelson & Wilma Rudolph: Strength Vince Lombardi: ToughnessGertrude Ederle: Triumph Ken Venturi: Trust The 1980 Men's and 1998 Women's United States Olympic Hockey Teams: Unity Eddie Robinson: VisionaryHappy Chandler: Wisdom

Sujets

• Bibliographies
• Bibliography

Informations

• Publié par: Price World Publishing
• Date de parution: 26 juin 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781619840577
• Langue: English

Extrait

Hank Aaron
Fearlessness
By Fritz Knapp
Price World Publishing www.PriceWorldPublishing.com
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.
Copyright © 2012 by Fritz Knapp
All rights reserved. Neither this book, nor any parts within it may be sold or reproduced in any form without permission.
eISBN: 9781619840577
Table of Contents
Introduction
Fearlessness
At a Glance
Study/Review Questions
Summarizing
Event Mapping
Theme
Introduction
Life requires overcoming challenges and obstacles of many types. Battling our struggles and fears determines who we are. Defeating negative thoughts such as, "I stink at this!" or "I have no friends!" is the key to success at any age. Hope is what we need to remind us that such thoughts are always harmful. It is one of the most important words in any language. It means, "Waiting patiently, expecting a positive outcome at some point in the future." In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced. I have discovered this to be true over and over again in my own life’s journey, first as a clueless middle school student in the early 1970’s. The sheer number of students (over 1,200) overwhelmed me, and the diverse student body produced a sizable number of bullies (just writing the word makes me cringe).
It didn’t take long for one of the toughest, most feared bullies, "Jesse" (as in Jesse James with his gang of western bank robbers) to target me, and to begin "requesting" my lunch money. "Give me your money, punk, before I beat the poop out of you," he’d say. Panic-stricken, I quickly handed over the money, and felt total relief when the brief, yet threatening, encounter had ended.