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The Overseas Adventures of an American Coach

World Baseball Guy

by Merv Moore

Marvin "Merv" Moore was one of the early trailblazers of American baseball coaches relocating overseas to teach the sport to European athletes. The native Texan played a vital role in elevating the game in Switzerland and transformed one of Europe's weakest national teams into a legitimate B-Pool contender. However, while he was achieving success on the baseball diamond, his personal life was in turmoil.

Burdened with the guilt of not preventing the suicide of his best friend at the age of 19, Merv turned to drugs and alcohol to escape these haunting feelings. He was the one whom his friend called late at night to ramble incoherently until he fell asleep on the phone. He was the one who helped Stanley prepare a last will and testament without even considering death. He was the only one who might have saved his best friend's life. But he dropped the ball.

World Baseball Guy is a collection of 12 real-life stories from places like Basel, Berlin, Zagreb, Vienna, Barcelona, Bandar Seri Begawan, Thimphu, and Kathmandu. Follow the wild adventures of Merv as he navigates living in foreign countries and pursuing a coaching career, all while battling his inner demons.

From playing street baseball with kids at a Slovenian housing project in Ljubljana to having a nightmarish picnic with gymnasts in Ukraine to almost provoking a public riot in Croatia — come along for an extraordinary worldwide journey of struggle and personal growth.

More books by Merv Moore

The Fentanyl Files

The Sobering Truth About The Opioid and Fentanyl Crisis

74,702 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses in a single year. The Fentanyl Files is the definitive account of how that happened, and why it has not stopped.

Author Merv Moore spent years tracing the full length of the fentanyl supply chain, from the chemical labs of China and the cartel boardrooms of Sinaloa to the desert corridors of Arizona, the encrypted dark web marketplaces, and the grief-stricken small towns of Middle America. What he found was not a drug problem. It was a system, engineered for profit, and operating at industrial scale.

Part investigative journalism, part human tragedy, and part policy reckoning, The Fentanyl Files takes readers inside every link in that deadly chain. Moore introduces the Mexican cartels that abandoned heroin the moment they discovered fentanyl could be manufactured for pennies and sold for fortunes. He follows the scouts, the middlemen, the pill press operators, and the dark web vendors who keep the supply flowing. He sits with the mothers, grandfathers, and siblings who are raising the children that the crisis left behind.

The Fentanyl Files does not offer easy answers. It offers the truth, told through the voices of the people living it, and a clear-eyed examination of a crisis that will not end until America decides it has had enough.

ANXIOUS NATION

Why America Is the Most Stressed Country on Earth and What We Can Do About It

What if anxiety is not your problem? What if it is America's?

More than half of American adults now report clinical levels of anxiety. One in five carries a diagnosed anxiety disorder. In 2024 alone, 43% of adults said they felt more anxious than the year before. Among teenagers, nearly one in three already meets the criteria for a diagnosable anxiety disorder. These are not the statistics of a mental health challenge. They are the data points of a national emergency.

ANXIOUS NATION: Why America Is the Most Stressed Country on Earth and What We Can Do About It is a sweeping, rigorously researched investigation into how the United States became the most anxiety-ridden wealthy nation on the planet, and what it will take to change it.

This is not a self-help book. There are no five-step plans, no morning routines, no breathing exercises dressed up as solutions to a systemic catastrophe. Instead, ANXIOUS NATION does what almost no other book on this subject dares to do: it follows the anxiety back to its roots.

America is not tired. America is terrified. And it does not have to be.

ANXIOUS NATION is the diagnosis this country has been waiting for, and the beginning of the conversation that could finally change it.

The Big Beautiful Bill: How The GOP Robbed America

The Inside Story of How Billionaires Stole Two Tax Cuts and Sold Out the Working Class

What if the biggest tax bill in a generation was designed, from the first page to the last, to make you think you won while someone else took everything?

THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL EXPOSED is a line-by-line, number-by-number dissection of the most consequential and deceptive piece of tax legislation in modern American history. It does not rely on partisan talking points. It relies on the actual text of the bill.

The permanent provisions, the ones locked into law forever with no expiration date and no sunset clause, flow almost entirely to corporations, billionaires, and the wealthiest dynasties in America.

The $1.3 trillion cost of making the corporate tax rate permanently 21 percent. The $1 trillion pass-through deduction expansion that allows wealthy business owners to shield even more income from taxation. The estate tax exemption raised to $30 million per couple, ensuring that billionaire dynasties can pass their fortunes to heirs without paying a single dollar.

And what did working families receive?

Two hundred dollars per child added to the child tax credit - $3.85 per week. A temporary tip deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary overtime deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary senior deduction that expires in 2028. A temporary auto loan deduction for American-made cars that expires in 2028.

Notice the pattern. Everything for working families has an expiration date. Everything for the wealthy does not.

They were betting you would never check the math. This book checks it for you.

The Automation Cliff

Which Jobs Are Already Gone and How to Build a Career That Survives What's Coming

Something is wrong with the job market, and most people can feel it — they just can't name it.

Hiring freezes that never lift. Entry-level positions that vanish without explanation. Experienced professionals quietly pushed out and replaced by software no one wants to discuss in public. The automation wave isn't a distant threat on the horizon. It already made landfall. The question is no longer whether your industry will be affected — it's whether you'll recognize the warning signs before your livelihood disappears with the rest.

In The Automation Cliff, author Merv Moore strips away the reassuring myths sold by economists, tech companies, and higher education institutions and replaces them with a clear-eyed account of what automation actually does to labor markets, how it spreads through industries in ways most workers never anticipate, and which careers are already crumbling beneath a professional veneer of normalcy.

This is not a book about robots taking over the world. It's a book about what's happening right now — in offices, hospitals, law firms, financial institutions, and college campuses — and what you can do about it before the cliff gives way beneath you.

The Automation Cliff is written for professionals who are done being patronized by optimistic headlines and ready for an honest conversation about the future of work. Knowledge alone won't save your career. But the right knowledge, applied early enough, absolutely can.

The edge is closer than you think. Start walking back from it now.

LEAVING AMERICA

Why a Record Number of Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship, Seeking Residency Abroad, and What It Means for the Country They're Leaving Behind

The United States has long defined itself as the world's most coveted destination, a nation built on the promise that the tired, the poor, and the ambitious will find here a life worth living. But a growing wave of Americans have made a different calculation. They are leaving, not for adventure or a gap year, but because the arithmetic of American life has stopped making sense.

In "Leaving America: Why a Record Number of Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship, Seeking Residency Abroad, and What It Means for the Country They're Leaving Behind," journalist and researcher Merv Moore takes an unflinching, deeply reported look at one of the most consequential and least discussed social shifts of our era.

Chapter by chapter, Moore profiles retirees in Mexico and Panama, young professionals in Berlin and Tokyo, entrepreneurs in Estonia and Medellín, Black Americans in Lisbon and Accra, and families who decided that another country would raise their children better than the one that still calls itself the greatest on earth.

"Leaving America" is not a celebration of departure or a condemnation of those who stay. It is a rigorous, compassionate, and often deeply moving investigation into what the emigration wave reveals about America in the 2020s.

The verdict of the departed is quiet, undeniable, and growing. This book asks what it will take for America to finally listen.

The Frugal Expat

Live a 5-star life in Southeast Asia on $1,500 a month

Millions of Americans are quietly running the same terrifying calculation: what they have saved, what they are projected to save, and what Social Security might deliver does not add up to the retirement they spent forty years working toward.

The Frugal Expat is a practical, deeply personal, and occasionally funny guide to relocating to Southeast Asia and stretching a modest retirement income into a genuinely abundant life.

This book covers everything an honest guide must cover. It starts with the uncomfortable questions: Is this life actually for you? Not everyone is suited for expat life, and Author Merv Moore uses a frank self-assessment framework covering personality, health, relationships, and finances to help readers decide before they pack a single box.

The Frugal Expat is for anyone who suspects that the retirement they want is already funded, just waiting in a country they haven't considered yet.

THE ULTIMATE SPORTS TRIVIA BOOK: SHOW ME THE MONEY

Professional Contracts, Career Earnings, Endorsements, Bonuses & NIL Deals

Sports trivia has always celebrated the champions, the records, and the unforgettable moments. But there is another scoreboard, one that measures value in contracts, bonuses, endorsement checks, and the power of a personal brand. The Ultimate Sports Trivia Book: Show Me the Money takes you behind the scenes and into the financial engine that drives every major sport.

This is not your typical trivia book. You will discover the biggest contracts in history, the most outrageous endorsement empires, and the strangest incentive clauses ever written. You will learn which legends banked more from shoe deals than from their playing salaries, which college athletes became million-dollar brands overnight, and which retired stars still cash checks long after their final games.

Each section features multiple-choice, true or false, fill-in-the-blank, and ranking-based questions. Difficulty levels range from Rookie Money to Show Me the Money expert challenges. A master answer key, a special bonus round of mixed-sport questions, and a comprehensive glossary of sports money terms round out the book.

Whether you are a casual fan or a die-hard sports business nerd, this book will change the way you watch the games. Forget the final score. It is time to follow the money. Show me what you know.