The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream
by Jim Morris, Joel Engel
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Author: Jim Morris, Joel EngelEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-01
ISBN: 0446678376
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446678377
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Great Book for Baseball Lovers
Summary: 5 Stars
I read this book when it first came out in 2001 in the hardback edition. I am a huge baseball fan and have often fantasized about what it would be like to play in the major leagues.
Jim Morris takes us on a nostalgic journey through his childhood, adolescence, and early adult years, growing up in a military family. He describes, in painful detail, his troubled relationship with his father, the challenges he faced in his career, and even the difficulties he had in his marriage.
The story is almost too good to be true. A Texas high school baseball coach in his mid-thirties pitching in the major leagues? No way! The climactic ending is the highlight of this book. Striking out Royce Clayton in front of a hometown crowd? You're kidding me!
This is truly "a guys book". Great reading. You gotta see the movie, too, called "The Rookie" with Dennis Quaid.
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Summary of The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream
He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and throw a baseball. For Jim, the passion of becoming a major-league ballplayer was his anchor and inspiration...until injuries and life got in the way. A decade after Jim walked away from the minors and began a life of fatherhood and mortgage payments, he made a promise to the hardscrabble high-school team he coached: If they could win their local championship, he would try out again for the big leagues. They did-and he did. Now, in this wondrous, heart-tugging book, Jim Morris tells the story of his remarkable life and his amazing journey to the Big Show at the age of thirty-five...and how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream.Biographies & Memoirs Books
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