This book introduces baseball as it is played in the United States, where it is known as the national pastime. It is a resource for players who are just starting out, offering sections on baseball history, the basic rules of the game, safety issues, and the skills needed for both batting and playing the field.

Many believe that basketball will soon rival soccer in worldwide popularity. In the United States, where basketball was invented, the sport is more popular than ever. For boys and girls interested in playing, this title is a great resource. Newer players will learn about the history of the sport, its basic rules, and game strategy.

As summer turns to fall across the United States, thousands of football players at the professional, college, high school, and youth league levels gear up for the season. This book is a great resource for both new and experienced players.

Paintball was invented in North America in the early 1980s as a game for testing individual survival skills in the woods. Since then, it has evolved into a high-tech team game played on a football or soccer field dotted with inflatable obstacles.

As athletes around the world know, soccer requires little equipment, and the rules are easy to understand. This combination of affordability and simplicity has made soccer the most popular youth league sport in the United States.

This book is a great resource for both new and experienced softball players. For those just starting out, it offers sections on softball history, the basic rules of the game, safety issues, and the skills needed for both batting and playing the field.

Barrel racing is one of the few rodeo events in which animals and humans work cooperatively to defeat a common foe-in this case, the clock. Although this
particular event is so simple and is over quickly, it remains one of the most popular events of the sport and is one of the few dominated by female riders.

Bull Riding is a backstage pass that will introduce readers to champion bull riders, the powerful and violent animals they try to subdue, and the lingo, equipment, and pre-ride rituals of the world's best and bravest rodeo cowboys.

Covering one of rodeo's oldest events, this book
celebrates the skills and talents of the ranch hands of the Old West and how these buckaroos found a way to capture young calves in a herd in need of medical attention.

This book serves as an introduction to this high-speed and maximum-precision event of this genteel form of the rodeo. In addition to tracing the origins of this sport, the book delves into a thorough explanation of how the event is conducted, including the layout of the course and the proper sequence the weaving horse and rider must follow between poles.

In addition to providing entertainment between rodeo events, these performers have raised the stakes to become the most essential and highly skilled members of the circuit. The book gives readers a background in the history of rodeo before tracking the evolution of the rodeo clown into the exciting and dangerous profession it is today.

Team roping is fast on its way to becoming the top equine sport in the country. It involves a partnership between two athletes working together in their roles as header and heeler, chasing down a temperamental, stampeding steer!