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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Traces the ... story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A's baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players (six of which are currently playing). In the process, Merl taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility"--Dust...
2) Benched
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Don, a win-at-all-costs kind of man, coaches a Little League team on which his son plays. The veteran butts heads with his new assistant coach as the pair have very different personal circumstances and philosophies about the game and how to motivate their team.
3) The rookie
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Chicken Runs at Midnight is a dramatic, powerful story of Major League Baseball coach Rich Donnelly whose dying daughter's energy and encouragement changed his heart and his life, especially through an uncanny way God worked through her in a World Series sign from heaven.
Author
Language
English
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"The most valuable team player in sports" shows you what "teamwork" really means
What does it take to be a real team player, especially in a society that glorifies selfishness and a corporate culture that often uses "team player" as a buzzword but rewards only the showboaters and prima donnas? Well, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. In this happy and hilarious guide to teamwork, sportsmanship, and winning, Yogi Berra draws on the timeless wisdom...
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker, a former pro ballplayer-turned-exterminator, expects to make some easy money coaching a struggling Little League team called the Bears. what he gets is a ragtag group of inept players who transform the field of dreams into the stuff of nightmares! Buttermaker must somehow step up to the plate and help his players become something they never imagined they could be: a team.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A major authoritativebiography of one of the greatest catchers in the history of the gameand the greatest living New York Yankeepresents Yogi Berra as he has never been seen before. Sifted from more than 4,000 newspaper and magazine articles, interviews, papers, and hundreds of memoirs and biographies, this compilation examines one of the most competitive players of his generation and one of the most unique men in baseball history. This updated, paperback...
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A High School, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known and soon faces opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.
11) The final season
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Norway, Iowa, the high school baseball team is led by legendary Coach Jim Van Scoyoc who has won 19 State Championships. But the small town heroes are dealt a series of unexpected blows that threaten to rob them of their 20th championship win. Talk of a school merger gets serious and Coach Scoyoc is fired. He is replaced by his 24-year-old assistant coach, Kent Stock. Failure seems inevitable. Based on the true story of Kent Stock....
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