One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
7 best books like One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (Chris Ballard): Girlchild, The Odds: A Love Story, Juvenile In Justice, One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together, Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs, The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End, Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
| Author | Tupelo Hassman |
| ISBN | 0374162573 |
Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn’t got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she’s checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Disposal of Outgrown Uniforms;...
| Author | Stewart O'Nan |
| ISBN | 0670023167 |
The beloved Stewart O'Nan, author of the bestselling Last Night at the Lobster and Emily, Alone, returns with another bittersweet gem.
Jobless, nearly homeless, and with their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland home for one last Valentine's Day...
| Author | Richard Ross |
| ISBN | 0985510609 |
Winner of the 2012 Best News and Documentary Photography Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors for a selection published in Harper’s Magazine, the photographs in Juvenile in Justice open our eyes to the world of the incarceration of American youth. The nearly 150 images in this book...
One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together
| Author | Amy Bass |
| ISBN | 0316396540 |
In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, ONE GOAL tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristling with racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generation Mainers in their quest for state--and ultimately national--glory.
When thousands...
Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs
| Author | Dirk Hayhurst |
| ISBN | 0806534850 |
I commented on The Bullpen Gospels that what was missing from the story was Dirk Hayhurst meeting his wife, as that seemed like an important part of the narrative that was missing. Turns out that he was just saving all the material from the Bonnie situation (which does not resemble Pulp Fiction in any way;...
The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End
| Author | Gary M. Pomerantz |
| ISBN | 0735223610 |
Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret
About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment....
Astroball: The New Way to Win It All
| Author | Ben Reiter |
| ISBN | 0525576649 |
When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment,...
