The Baseball Whisperer
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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. The statue was a gift from one of Merl's original long-shot projects, a skinny kid from the Los Angeles ghetto who would one day become a beloved Hall-of-Fame shortstop: Ozzie Smith. The Baseball Whisperer traces the story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A's baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players. In the process, he taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility. More than a book about ballplayers in the nation's agricultural heartland, The Baseball Whisperer is the story of a coach who put character and dedication first, reminding us of the best, purest form of baseball excellence.
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Tackett, M. (2016). The Baseball Whisperer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Tackett, Michael. 2016. The Baseball Whisperer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Tackett, Michael, The Baseball Whisperer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Tackett, Michael. The Baseball Whisperer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
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