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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kornhauser, Jacob, 1994- The cup of coffee club Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. (DLC) 2019038837 |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacob Kornhauser |
ISBN: | 9781538130810 1538130815 |
OCLC Number: | 1142844860 |
Description: | 216 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : the invisible battle -- Charlie Lindstrom -- Roe Skidmore -- Larry Yount -- Gary Martz -- Rafael Montalvo -- Jeff Banister -- Stephen Larkin -- Jon Ratliff -- Ron Wright -- Sam Marsonek -- Matt Tupman -- Other cup of coffee stories closing thoughts. |
Other Titles: | Eleven players and their brush with baseball history |
Responsibility: | Jacob Kornhauser. |
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No matter the backstory or the ending, there's a certain magic around a ballplayer whose entire career comes down to one appearance in a big-league game, a lifetime lived in the span of just a couple hours. In this book, Jacob Kornhauser has given each of those one-game wonders a chance to have his full story told-and there's magic in that too. -- Sean Deveney, The Sporting News Jacob Kornhauser has written a wonderful book about one of my favorite topics: baseball players who get one day, one game in the big leagues. It made me think of my favorite movie, Field of Dreams. Enjoy. -- Tim Kurkjian, ESPN's Baseball Tonight It will shed light to fans in a new way. -- Mark Appel, former No. 1 overall MLB draft pick The title is inspired, and its human interest stories are well told. For all of us who think "Damn Yankees" is for us-we who would sell our souls to the devil in exchange for one big league season-no, one at bat-this book rings true. -- George F. Will, best-selling author and writer for the Washington Post Read more...

