Starting and Closing Perseverance, Faith, and One More Year

Name: Starting and Closing Perseverance, Faith, and One More Year
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ISBN: 9780062120564

ISBN-10: 0062120565

ISBN-13: 9780062120564

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Authors: John Smoltz, Don Yaeger

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John Smoltz was one of the greatest Major League pitchers of the late twentieth/early twenty-first century—one of only two in baseball history ever to achieve twenty wins and fifty saves in single seasons—and now he shares the candid, no-holds-barred story of his life, his career, and the game he loves in Starting and Closing. A Cy Young Award-winner, future Baseball Hall of Famer, and currently a broadcaster for his former team, the Atlanta Braves, Smoltz delivers a powerful memoir with the kind of fascinating insight into game that made Moneyball a runaway bestseller, plus a heartfelt and truly inspiring faith and religious conviction, similar to what illuminates each page of Tim Tebow’s…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.440

Don Yaeger was an Associate Editor at Sports Illustrated magazine. He is the co-author of Under the Tarnished Dome: How Notre Dame Betrayed Its Ideals for Football Glory, Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL, and George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution.




Why Not?



Burn Notice



So You Say I've Got a Chance?!



Once a Tiger



Perseverance



Bullpen Business



Closing for Dummies



Me and the Homeboys Upstairs



No Decision



1 + 1≠2



Fairway Tales



Starting Over



Hiccups



Success and Failure



Chasing Rings, Part I



Chasing Rings, Part II



Vindication



A Sweep Worth Savoring



A Hamburger, a Hot Dog, and a French Fry Walk into a Bar…


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Index