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One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
One Shot at Forever A Small Town an Unlikely Coach and a Magical Baseball Season - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Chris Ballard, Mike Chamberlain (Narrator) 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 three hundred seventy teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make... more » the state final, a distinction that still stands.
In a gripping, cinematic narrative, Sports Illustrated writer Chris Ballard tells the story of the team and its coach, Lynn Sweet, a hippie, dreamer, and intellectual who arrived in Macon in 1966 and reluctantly took over the rag-tag team. Inspired by Sweet’s unconventional methods, the undersized, undermanned Ironmen embarked on an improbable postseason run that infuriated rival coaches and buoyed an entire town.
Engaging and poignant, One Shot at Forever is a testament to the power of high school sports to shape the lives of those who play them, and it reminds us that there are few bonds more sacred than those among a coach, a team, and a town.
Read by Mike Chamberlain -unabridged - 7 CDs - 9 hours« less
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ISBN-13: 9781452610290 ISBN-10: 1452610290 Publication Date: 9/28/2012 Edition:Unabridged CD Rating: