One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season - Hardcover

Ballard, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140132438X ISBN 13: 9781401324384

Verlag: HACHETTE BOOKS, 2012

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"One Shot at Forever is tender, fun, bittersweet, with a great narrative that just motors. It also features the funkiest coach not just in the history of baseball but the history of sport-an unforgettable character in a beautiful and unforgettable book."--Buzz Bissinger, author of Father's Day and Friday Night Lights

"There's a reason Chris Ballard has emerged as one of America's top sports writers. One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational and-in an era where sports are too often marred by scandal-as pure and true as a warm spring breeze. This isn't merely a book about baseball. It's a book about heart."--Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won

"This book is so well told by Chris Ballard that it gives sportswriting a good name."--Frank Deford, author of Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter

"Chris Ballard brings a big heart and a winning style to tell a memorable story of small-town Illinois. The boys of Macon renew our understanding of why baseball matters--and sometimes, why it matters too much."--Cait Murphy, author of Crazy '08

"[A] nonfiction gem about an underdog team that made good. This is the kind of baseball book that has long arms: YA readers, avid baseball fans, sports readers, and narrative nonfiction readers who like to be firmly set in a particular time and place should all find it joyful."--Library Journal

"Chris Ballard finds the heart in the heartland, in this inspirational tale of a small-school ball club that reaches for glory."--Edward Achorn, author of Fifty-nine in '84

"This story has obvious parallels to the classic basketball film Hoosiers and in Ballard's capable hands evokes similar themes of inspiration, camaraderie and the pressure of the once-in-a-lifetime moments associated with prep athletics . Ballard effortlessly captures the conflict between Eisenhower era beliefs and the changing cultural landscape in Vietnam-era America . [He] holds the story of the team together with his conversational prose and boosts the story's poignancy with a touching conclusion that demonstrates the importance of high school sports and hometown heroes."--Publishers Weekly

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A writer for Sports Illustrated recounts the entertaining journey of hippie, dreamer and intellectual Lynn Sweet, who, arriving in Macon, Illinois in 1966, became the reluctant coach of the Macon Ironmen and led this high-school baseball team through a season they will never forget.

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• Verlag: HACHETTE BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 140132438X
• ISBN 13: 9781401324384
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254