Three Runs Up: The Story of the World Series That Could Have Been - Couverture souple

Hart, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1418443859 ISBN 13 : 9781418443856

Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

What if the world had never heard of Steve Bartman? What if Alex Gonzalez had fielded that ground ball cleanly, and turned the pair? What if Grady Little had listened when Pedro told him he was tired, and gone to the bullpen, which had, after all, been extremely effective throughout the post-season.This story is about how the world and the 2003 World Series would have been had those things happened.The stories in this book are a mixture of fact, fiction, fantasy, and fanaticism. Outside of New York and Florida, there was not a lot of sentiment for the Yankees and Marlins to get to the 2003 World Series. Even Fox Sports, Sports Business Journal, ESPN, and every other media in the country were pulling for a Cubs vs. Red Sox World Series.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Ed Hart is the General Manager of the Fullerton Flyers Professional Baseball team in the Golden Baseball League. He and his wife, Laurie-ann, are natives of Fullerton, and have four kids, Justin (20), Michael (18), Jolie (15), and Becky (14). Hart has coached, umpired, played, and broadcast baseball throughout his life, prior to taking over as the GM of the Flyers. He served a mission for his Church in Ecuador from 1983 - 1985, and graduated with a degree in Business Management from Pepperdine University. He studied broadcast journalism in college, as well, and was the local play-by-play announcer for community college and high school sports. He also volunteered to do Spanish radio broadcasts for one season in minor league baseball. His heroes growing up were his Mom and Dad, Elaine and Jack, his brothers Steve and Ken, his sisters Sandra and Virginia, Vin Scully, Steve Garvey, Chick Hearn, and his high school baseball coach, Gene Martin. He played hours of baseball in his room as a kid, either with a deck of cards (a game he invented - which was used to determine the outcome the Series in this book), or by throwing a tennis ball at his wall over and over again. Regardless of how the game was played, he focused on the broadcasting and player personnel sides of the game more than the on field aspects. He had dreams of running a team, making trades, calling the play-by-play. While most children were put to bed with stories such Green Eggs and Ham, or Humpty Dumpty, he was read to sleep with stories of the old Hollywood Stars, Los Angeles Angels, Tinkers to Evers to Chance, Ted Williams hitting .406, and Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. He has loved baseball since he could hold a ball, and his passion for the underdog comes out in this book about World Series between the Red Sox and the Cubs!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouse
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1418443859
• ISBN 13: 9781418443856
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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