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Baseball's Great Expectations: Candid Stories of Ballplayers Who Didn't Live Up to the Hype
Baseball's Great Expectations features the fascinating stories of baseball players who were on the cusp of greatness, who everyone expected to be the next superstar, but never quite lived up to the hype--or through tragic circumstances, never had the chance.
Book Details
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publish Date: Mar 5th, 2024
- Pages: 214
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.63in - 1.08lb
- EAN: 9781538181805
- Categories: • Baseball - History• History• Sports
About the Author
Patrick Montgomery is an award-winning writer. His most recent book, The Baseball Miracle of the Splendid 6, garnered 1st place for Sports Book at the 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Awards and was a winner in the 2022 Hollywood Book Festival. Montgomery is a youth softball coach, baseball historian, student of the game, and member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
Praise for this book
In this case, I defer to the noted baseball sage John Greenleaf Whittier: "For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"--Bob Costas, Broadcaster, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 2018 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award
It has long bothered me when I hear a baseball player dismissed as a bust. It's one of the cruelest labels in professional sports. Fortunately, Patrick Montgomery has written Baseball's Great Expectations. It's an insightful and compelling read that tells the complete stories of 10 once-exalted prospects. In Montgomery's excellent book, we learn about their frustrations and failures, as well as their glories and triumphs. It also offers an in-depth look at the post-baseball career of these resilient and ultimately inspiring athletes. It's one of the best baseball books I've read this year. I highly recommend it.--Kevin Glew, baseball historian and creator of Cooperstowners in Canada
For every Ken Griffey Jr., Chipper Jones, or Albert Pujols whose career is a straight shot to Cooperstown, there are dozens of other top prospects who never fulfill their destinies--because of injury, bad luck, or the countless other obstacles the game can throw in their way. Patrick Montgomery tells their stories with passion, perspective, and an inquisitive eye in Baseball's Great Expectations.--Jerry Crasnick, sportswriter, baseball executive, and senior advisor to the Major League Baseball Players Association
Baseball is the ultimate game of failure, and Patrick Montgomery delivers a fascinating inside look at how the sport can defeat even its most gifted prospects. A must read for any fan of the national pastime, and for anyone who cares about the profound human struggle to master it.--Ian O'Connor, four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter
It's been written that baseball is designed to break your heart, and that makes the almost-was and coulda-beens integral to the game and to understanding its fans. Patrick Montgomery builds an alternate Cooperstown out of the Dan Pasquas, David Clydes, and Brien Taylors by meeting them on their own terms--the accidents, tragedies, and swings and misses that define baseball every bit as much as walk-off-homers and October heroics.--Rick Klein, Political Director, ABC News