The Oldest Rookie: Big-League Dreams from a Small-Town Guy

by Jim Morris and Joel Engel

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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.

  • ISBN10 0316591564
  • ISBN13 9780316591560
  • Publish Date 1 April 2001
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little, Brown & Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English