Follett Distributes Sporting Chance Press Winning Ways

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Libraries have many choices these days on where they can buy their books.  It's not easy to secure partners who can sell your books to libraries.  For libraries and schools using Follett Corporation to provide their books, our Winning Ways Series is now available from them. Our Papa Bear and the Chicago Bears' Winning Ways (middle grades) and Baseball's Winning Ways (young adults) are now available through Follett.

Baseball’s Winning Ways is written for enjoyment, inspiration, and information by the author of The 10 Commandments of Baseball, J. D. Thorne. Baseball’s Winning Ways examines baseball eras and their backgrounds, along with profiles of great current and past players. The drama of the game, its history, baseball superstitions, statistics, and the story of trading cards are presented clearly for readers from age 12 on up. The central theme of the book is baseball’s principles that are essential to the best baseball programs. The author points out that baseball promotes certain virtues that are so important today. These are the values that parents, grandparents, teachers, and coaches want to pass down to the next generation—as important now as ever.

 

Papa Bear and the Chicago Bears' Winning Ways by Patrick McCaskey tells the dramatic story of George Halas and his crucial role in professional football--all written for middle grades and young adult readers. Papa Bear's leadership took professional football from its beginning into the modern age. In Papa Bear and the Chicago Bears' Winning Ways, highlights of history are presented with vintage photographs so readers are not only  exposed to story of football, but they get  American history as well. Halas's important words of wisdom, his winning ways, are also explored and are tied into Ben Franklin's self-help methods for young people. A glossary, quiz, and discussion questions offer young football fans plenty of  learning opportunities whether at home or used in a school setting. Grandparents and parents will want to get this guide for their children and help expose them to some of the history, culture, and virtues that so important.

Poems About the Gospel: Jesus Prepared by Fasting and Praying by Patrick McCaskey

Sporting Chance Press

Surprising, inspiring, and all very human, McCaskey's Poems About the Gospel is a perfect book for all seasons. Patrick McCaskey is a Vice President and Director of the Chicago Bears. He is also a grandson of George "Papa Bear" Halas. Poems About the Gospel is available from Sporting Chance Press, Amazon and select bookstores. 

          

Jesus Prepared by Fasting and Praying by Patrick McCaskey

 

            Matthew 4:1-11

Before He gave the Sermon on the Mount,

Jesus Christ went into the wilderness.

He fasted forty days and forty nights.

He was hungry; the devil tempted Him.

Christ said, “Man shall not live by bread alone.”

Live on every word from the mouth of God.

Jesus Christ overcame three temptations.

Jesus did not seek personal glory.

He humbly did the will of God.  Amen.

When we are tempted, trust in God and pray.

Let us have fortitude and gratitude.

The grace of God leads us to victory.

The words of the Lord help us overcome

Our difficulties and our enemies.

 

Copyright 2021, Sporting Chance Press

Stories of Faith and Sacrifice

 We have been working for a decade on our Sports and Faith Series by Patrick McCaskey. And in some ways this series often reflects back on self sacrifice and giving. In 2019, we published our fourth book in the series called Worthwhile Struggle and then in 2020 we published our fifth, Sportsmanship. 

On the cover of Sportsmanship we include a famous photo of Papa Bear George Halas and Vince Lombardi. It hard to imagine two men who to better represent the struggle and hard work that went into the successful Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers football clubs. George Halas was also there in the early days of the NFL, helping to make it all work for generations to follow. It's not coincidental that both men were strong men of faith and they lived that way as well. 

On the cover of Worthwhile Struggle you will see Sister Jean of Loyola. It's hard to image a life more selflessly devoted to good than the life of a Catholic nun. Sister Jean was the team chaplain when the 2018 Ramblers went on the Final Four. And as she approached a century of living, she was asked to become a kind of media spokesman for the school. Confined to a wheel chair after a fall, Sister Jean was often wheeled out onto the stadium floor for "press conferences" and other events to help the school.  Decade after decade of service culminated in yet more service and sacrifice. 

Just as our parents and grandparents may have sacrificed and faced almost unfathomable hardships for their children, Sister Jean was out doing the same for "her Children" in Catholic Schools.  

At Sporting Chance Press, we continue to unapolgetically promote the good.