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The Dad Report - Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families (Paperback)
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The Dad Report - Fathers, Sons, and Baseball Families (Paperback)
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Loot Price R392
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Baseball honors legacies-from cheering the home team to breaking in
an old glove handed down from father to son. In The Dad Report,
award-winning sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of
uplifting stories in which fathers and sons-from the sport's
superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father-share the game.
Almost two hundred father-son pairs have played in the big leagues.
Cook takes us inside the clubhouses, homes, and lives of many of
the greats. Aaron Boone follows grandfather Bob, father Ray, and
brother Bret to the majors-three generations of All-Stars. Barry
Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. strive to outdo their famous dads.
Michael Jordan walks away from basketball to play minor-league
baseball-to fulfill his father's dream. In visiting these legendary
families, Cook discovers that ball-playing families are a lot like
our own. Dan Haren regrets the long road trips that keep him from
his kids. Ike Davis and his father, a former Yankee, debate whether
Ike should pitch or play first base. Buddy Bell leads a generation
of big-leaguers determined to open their workplace-the clubhouse-to
their kids. Framing The Dad Report is the story of Kevin Cook's own
father, Art Cook, a minor-league pitcher, a loveable rogue with a
wicked screwball. In Art's later years, Kevin phoned him almost
every night to talk baseball. They called those nightly
conversations "the Dad Report." In time, Kevin came to see that
these conversations were about much more than the game. That's what
this book is about: the way fathers and sons talk baseball as a way
of talking about everything-courage, fear, fun, family, morality,
mortality, and how it's not whether you win or lose that counts,
it's how you share the game.
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