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Karate Dog
$9.98
Our young grandsons are taking Karate lessons and I thought this would make a great Valentines day gift for them. They love the movie and enjoy it all the time. A Happy Memaw!

Real Genius
$8.49
This movie is and has been a great movie ever since it first came out. And when I found it on Amazon.com I just had to get it. We watch it quite often. It has made a nice addition to our movie collection.

3 Ninjas - High Noon on Mega Mountain
$9.95

First of all, to all these negative reviews. Have you seen this movie? It is without a doubt the greatest three ninjas movie if not the greatest movie ever created. Me and my friends stayed up all night drinking soda and eating pizza and watched this movie like nine times. There were three of us, so subsequently we each had a role in the movie and acted out the whole movie. I had my uncle charlie play the role of hulk hogan. I don't understand why people hate it so much. The acting is great, Sam Douglas plays the socks off that F.B.I agent. Dwayne Carrington kills the role of the Jamaican computer programmer. The special effects were insane!!! Did you not see the people stuck upside down on that roller coaster?!?! The fight scenes were so intense. It sounds difficult to show a 4 year old baby like Tum Tum beat up a grown man, never less a ninja. But Sean McNamara, the movies director completely nails it. I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. Buy like nine copies of this movie, and give them as gifts. You wont regret it. GO DAVE DRAGON!!

The Whiz Kids and the 1950 Pennant (Baseball in America Series)
$19.95
Robin Roberts and Paul Rodgers have written a terrific book that can be enjoyed by all Phillies and baseball fans. While the focus is on the 1950 Phillies, the authors have spent a fair amount of time (but not too much) explaining how dreadful the Phillies were in the decades leading up to 1950 and how the Phillies organization managed to change from the stodgy, cheap baseball club it had been to a forward thinking and nimble one that won the 1950 NL penant.

Robin Roberts' memory for detail is terrific and you very much feel like you are there, through the victories, defeats, fights (on the field) and down times for the young men of the team. Many other players are highlighted and I liked the fact that Roberts did not sugar coat the shameful way Jackie Robinson had been treated by the other players including, regretably, the Phillies.

Another enjoyable component of the book are many interviews, mostly done by Dean Rodgers, that are interesting and informative. The use of segments of these interviews throughout the book really confirms the accounts descibed in the book and helped to breath life into the players both on the field and off.

I liked the fairly extensive statisitical compilation at the end of the book and think that serious fans will find that very useful to better undertand the team.

As memories fade and those who actually remember the 1950 Whiz Kids walk off the field, this is an important book that preserves this moment of American-Philadelphia-Phillies history. It also happens to be a very enjoyable and worthwhile read. The Whiz Kids And the 1950 Pennant (Baseball In America)