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The Rookie

The Rookie

The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream

by Jim Morris and Joel Engel
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/03/2002

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He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and throw a baseball. For Jim, the passion of becoming a major-league ballplayer was his anchor and inspiration...until injuries and life got in the way. A decade after Jim walked away from the minors and began a life of fatherhood and mortgage payments, he made a promise to the hardscrabble high-school team he coached: If they could win their local championship, he would try out again for the big leagues. They did-and he did. Now, in this wondrous, heart-tugging book, Jim Morris tells the story of his remarkable life and his amazing journey to the Big Show at the age of thirty-five...and how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream.
ISBN:
9780446678377
9780446678377
Category:
Sports & outdoor recreation
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-03-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Grand Central Publishing
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
191x127x18mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Jim Morris

Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Major Jim Morris served three tours with the Green Berets in Vietnam. He has worked as a civil rights advocate for the mountain peoples with whom he fought, the Montagnard, and his Vietnam memoir, War Story, won the first Bernal Diaz Award for military non-fiction.

He has covered wars for Rolling Stone, Soldier of Fortune, Esquire, and the Saturday Evening Post. For decades he has immersed himself in a deep study of Toltec shamanism. He lives in Bell Canyon, California.

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