Isbn: 9780618729050 - senior year: a father, a son, and high school baseball (11 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. [10], 228 pages. Illustrations. Slight soiling to dust jacket. Includes Introduction and Acknowledgments. DJ has a sticker "Harvard Book Store Signed by the Author" on the front. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Dan Shaughnessy (born July 20, 1953) is an American sports writer. He has covered the Boston Red Sox for The Boston Globe since 1981. In 2016, he was given the J.G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Hall of Fame. Shaughnessy is often referred to by his nickname "Shank." He began his career as a beat reporter covering the Baltimore Orioles for the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1977 and 1978. He then was the national baseball writer for The Washington Star from 1979 until the newspaper folded in 1981. He has been a sports writer for The Boston Globe since September, 1981. During that time, he has served as the beat writer for the Boston Celtics and the Boston Red Sox, as well as a sports columnist for the Globe. Shaughnessy has authored or contributed to several sports-related books, including on the fierce Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. His book, The Curse of the Bambino, details the travails of the Boston Red Sox and their search for a World Series championship. He subsequently wrote Reversing the Curse after the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. In 2013, Shaughnessy and Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona released Francona, a biography focusing on Francona's years as manager of the Red Sox. In this book, Dan Shaughnessy focuses his acclaimed sportswriting talents on his son Sam's senior year of high school. Using that experience, Shaughnessy also circles back to his own boyhood and calls on the many sports greats he has known over the years to capture that uniquely American rite of passage that is sports. All along the way, Dad is there, chronicling that universal experience of putting your child out on the field--and in the world--and hoping for the best. With gleaming insight, wicked humor, and, at times, the searching soul of an unsure father, Shaughnessy illuminates how sports connects generations, and how sports help us grow up--and let go. Derived from a Publishers Weekly review: Caustic Boston Globe columnist Shaughnessy, bete noir of many a Red Sox fan, tells a parent's story-his son, Sam's, senior year of high school, and the baseball season that accompanies it. Giving a chapter to each month, Shaughnessy tells of the prom, late-night parties and college visits that can make senior year stressful for parent and student alike; though, comparing his own experience to his son's, Shaugnessy frequently finds Sam has an easier go of it, snagging dates and above-average grades with equal ease. The young man's story really unfolds on the baseball diamond, where his considerable talents as a power hitter bring him the attention of Division I college programs. However, success doesn't do much to protect him from adolescent depression; as Sam writes in his college application essay, "When I go 0-4, I want to hang myself in the closet." Anybody whose kid has played on a team will identify with him, sweating out each at-bat in the bleachers. Baseball fans will enjoy the book on another level, as well, not only for the detail with which Shaughnessy renders his son's games, but also for candid tales of legends like Earl Weaver and Reggie Jackson.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 240 pages. 8.50x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.