• One Shot at Forever. A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season Крис Баллард
    ISBN: 9781401312664
    Год издания: 2013
    Издательство: Hachette
    Язык: Английский

    In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There the Ironmen would play against a Chicago powerhouse in a dramatic game

  • One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season Крис Баллард
    ISBN: B007MB5IRA
    Год издания: 2012
    Язык: Английский

    "One Shot at Forever is powerful, inspirational. . . . 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 In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois, playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats, defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There the Ironmen would play against a…

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