Shortstop … or Bust!

The Traveling Tales of Youth Baseball

Nonfiction, Sports, Baseball, Essays & Writings, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Linda Padilla-Diaz ISBN: 9781475965025
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: January 10, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Linda Padilla-Diaz
ISBN: 9781475965025
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: January 10, 2013
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Under the attentive guidance of a volunteer manager passionate about baseball, a group of boys assembled as the B team to play travel baseball for their town team. In Shortstop or Bust!, author Linda Padilla-Diaz shares a compilation of stories covering the journey through the five years her two sons played competitive traveling youth baseballfrom her perspective as both a mother and the managers wife.

Shortstop or Bust! describes Padilla-Diazs love of the game and delves into parents fixation for their childrens extracurricular activities, seeking the glorified shortstop position. The humorous, touching chronicle of lefty Derek and manager Harry provides firsthand insight into the growing revolution and competitiveness of youth travel baseball. The story begins with the modest commencement of the team with overzealous coaches and dads and describes their winning transformation through several seasons. Padilla-Diaz offers an entertaining play-by-play account of events and provides an up-close view of the games the team played.

Offering a personal account into the harried nature of youth baseball, Shortstop or Bust! presents an informative, amusing, and bittersweet story about the five-year journey of a group of boys who worked hard and played hard to win.

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Under the attentive guidance of a volunteer manager passionate about baseball, a group of boys assembled as the B team to play travel baseball for their town team. In Shortstop or Bust!, author Linda Padilla-Diaz shares a compilation of stories covering the journey through the five years her two sons played competitive traveling youth baseballfrom her perspective as both a mother and the managers wife.

Shortstop or Bust! describes Padilla-Diazs love of the game and delves into parents fixation for their childrens extracurricular activities, seeking the glorified shortstop position. The humorous, touching chronicle of lefty Derek and manager Harry provides firsthand insight into the growing revolution and competitiveness of youth travel baseball. The story begins with the modest commencement of the team with overzealous coaches and dads and describes their winning transformation through several seasons. Padilla-Diaz offers an entertaining play-by-play account of events and provides an up-close view of the games the team played.

Offering a personal account into the harried nature of youth baseball, Shortstop or Bust! presents an informative, amusing, and bittersweet story about the five-year journey of a group of boys who worked hard and played hard to win.

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