Knocking on Heaven's door : six minor leaguers in search of the baseball dream / Marty Dobrow.

By:

Dobrow, Marty, 1960-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781613760185
1613760183

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Knocking on Heaven's door.DDC classification:

796.357/64 22

LOC classification:

GV875.A1 D62 2010

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Contents:

Part 1. Spring Training 2005 -- 1. Crash Davis Territory (Doug Clark) -- 2. Can't Miss (Brad Baker) -- 3. Fluttering Away (Charlie Zink) -- 4. Manny Being Manny (Manny Delcarmen) -- 5. A Dream Deferred (Randy Ruiz) -- Part 2. Opening Day to the All-Star Break -- 6. "It's the Life -- the One Everyone Wants to Live" (Baker) -- 7. Opposites Attract (Delcarmen and Zink) -- 8. Baseballtown (Ruiz) -- 9. "They Got Him!" (Agents and Matt Torra) -- 10. Waiting (on Deck) for Godot (Clark and Torra) -- Part 3. The Second Half -- 11. Suspended Disbelief (Ruiz) -- 12. The Three Hardest Outs in the Game (Baker) -- 13. Goose Bumps (Delcarmen) -- 14. "If You Make It, We Will Come" (Zink) -- 15. At Heaven's Door (Clark) -- Interlude. The Off-Season -- 16. There's Always Next Year, Sometimes -- Part 4. Opening Day 2006 to August 12, 2008 -- 17. Going Home Again (Delcarmen) -- 18. A Giant among Legends (Clark) -- 19. Knockin' after Midnight (Ruiz) -- 20. "Just Hoping to Have It Be Over" (Torra) -- 21. On the Big Screen (Baker) -- 22. "The Path of the Knuckleballer Is Rarely Linear" (Zink).

Summary: The rich slice of Americana found in minor league baseball presents a contradictory culture. On the one hand, the minors are filled with wholesome, family-friendly entertainment-fluffy mascots, kitschy promotions, and earnest young men signing autographs for wide-eyed Little Leaguers. On the other, they comprise a world of cutthroat competition in which a team-mate's failure or injury can be the cause of quiet celebration and 90 percent of all players never play a single inning in the major leagues.

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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The rich slice of Americana found in minor league baseball presents a contradictory culture. On the one hand, the minors are filled with wholesome, family-friendly entertainment-fluffy mascots, kitschy promotions, and earnest young men signing autographs for wide-eyed Little Leaguers. On the other, they comprise a world of cutthroat competition in which a team-mate's failure or injury can be the cause of quiet celebration and 90 percent of all players never play a single inning in the major leagues.

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