{"title":"Scott Lamb","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-pujols-revised-and-updated-more-than-the-game-paperback","title":"The Pujols Revised and Updated: More Than the Game - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a decade starring for the St. Louis Cardinals, Albert Pujols is already compared with names in the highest reaches of baseball's pantheon: Ruth, Gehrig, Aaron, Mays. Slugging his way toward the Hall of Fame, Pujols has raised the game's standard for greatness beyond any statistical measure. But the standard by which Pujols measures himself has less to do with baseball performance than with honoring God and exemplifying his faith for the millions who follow him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom his birthplace in the Dominican Republic to his high-school days in Kansas City, from a single season in the minor leagues to the World Series and nine All-Star Games, Pujols has developed his immense talents on the baseball diamond, all the while focusing his direction--and the direction of his family--with the belief that a higher power is behind every achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthors Scott Lamb and Tim Ellsworth spare no tale of this growing baseball legend, all the while accentuating \"the unseen hand of divine providence\" that has shaped the man Albert Pujols has become. It's a story that will inspire, and a reminder of the human quality behind superhuman achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story--still in the making--of allowing God's strength to guide one man's path to be the best his game has ever seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis numbers are staggering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2010 Albert Pujols became the first player in baseball history to bat .300 with 30 home runs and 100 runs batted in for ten consecutive seasons. Babe Ruth didn't do it. Ted Williams didn't do it. Hank Aaron didn't do it. The fact that this was accomplished in Pujols' first ten seasons only makes the achievement more, well, Ruthian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert Pujols' story goes beyond numbers, though. Beyond the bright lights and packed stadiums of Major League Baseball. Even beyond the adulation of millions who have come to see the St. Louis Cardinal star as the rare \"once-in-a-lifetime-player\" who transcends team loyalties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the 2010 season, Pujols hit 408 home runs. And every time he touched home plate after sending another baseball to a random bookshelf or trophy case, Pujols pointed heavenward. Toward the strength behind his otherworldly talents, toward the inspiration that lifts him on a daily basis, regardless of his team's place in the standings. For Jesus Christ is Albert Pujols' first love. Faith, family, then maybe baseball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndorsements: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He matches in his personal life the excellence that he demonstrates on the diamond. You will love this book and will love Pujols if you don't already.\" --Mike Huckabee, 44th Governor of Arkansas, Former Republican presidential candidate, Host of Fox News ' Huckabee Show, Best-selling author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Pujols' argument for greatest player ever isn't nearly as interesting or significant as the fact that there even is an argument. That's because perhaps the most amazing thing about Albert Pujols is that less than two years before he began one of the greatest rookie seasons in baseball history, he was a non-prospect.\" -Joe Posnanski, Senior Writer at \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e (included in the Foreword) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePujols \u003c\/i\u003eis full of nuggets. Given that the action in the famous poem \"Casey at the Bat\" starts with \"Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,\" I enjoyed reading that Albert Pujols asks opposing runners at first base, \"If you died today, where do you think you're going to go?\" Lamb and Ellsworth lucidly describe both the season-by-season baseball exploits of Pujols and the impact he's having on some lives for eternity.\" -Marvin Olasky, Editor-in-chief, \u003ci\u003eWorld\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67945982525663,"sku":"9781595555175","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FY7Vgw3Vbg9781595555175.webp?v=1791507181"},{"product_id":"huckabee-the-authorized-biography-paperback","title":"Huckabee: The Authorized Biography - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Mike Huckabee Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Intimate Look\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, the former governor of Arkansas opens up the vault to friend and biographer W. Scott Lamb (\u003cem\u003ePujols: More Than the Game\u003c\/em\u003e, 2011) to tell his life story. In this thoroughly unique biography of one of the most likeable, influential leaders in America, Lamb covers the entire scope of Mike Huckabee's life and career. With full, unfettered access to Governor Huckabee's personal library, files, and family records, fans will finally get the definitive account of one humble man's rise to political prominence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders are introduced to young Michael Dale Huckabee, son of a local fireman in Hope, Arkansas. Huckabee would soon share the same grade school teacher as Bill Clinton, who is nine years his senior. Huckabee's collegiate aspirations took him to Ouachita Baptist University, where he graduated in two and a half years and met his future wife, Janet. Huckabee also honed his musical talents, becoming a bass player and forming the band Capitol Offense. Later he would also serve at the side of television personality James Robison during the early years of his television ministry. He hit his ministerial stride in the early 1980s, when he took the helm of Immanuel Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, from 1980 to 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost people, however, know Mike Huckabee as a politician. In 1994, he became lieutenant governor and faced the now infamous Whitewater scandal that sent then-governor Jim Guy Tucker into court to face felony charges of corruption and fraud. In the interim Huckabee decided to run for governor, but not before Tucker would change his mind at the eleventh hour and cause a statewide constitutional crisis that challenged Huckabee to the core. Huckabee's courageous handling of the debacle endeared him to the hearts of many citizens, causing him to serve as the forty-fourth governor of Arkansas from 1996 until 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHuckabee\u003c\/em\u003e also takes a good look at other difficult decisions he faced. In 2000 he granted clemency to prisoner Maurice Clemmons, who, while on parole, moved to Washington State and murdered four policemen in 2009. Huckabee was forced to field question after question about this case during his 2008 presidential bid--a race in which he finished second to John McCain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, Mike Huckabee is known for his television program on the Fox News channel and as a potential contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. 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