Mike Chamberlain
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning journalist, this is the story of a legendary coach and the professional-caliber baseball program he built in America's heartland, where boys would come summer after summer to be molded into ballplayers-and men.
Clarinda, Iowa, population 5,000, sits two hours from anything. There, between the cornfields and hog yards, is a ball field with a bronze bust of a man named Merl Eberly, who specialized in second chances and lost causes....