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Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball (Robins Lane Press) - Hardcover
Synopsis
Covering Home weaves the secret lessons of being a good father through anecdotes and allegories of baseball, drawing on the game's history and tradition to delight and guide fathers and would-be fathers on the path to effective fatherhood. Covering Home speaks to fathers in their own language to spread an important message: give yourself to your children the way players give themselves to the game they love, looking at every part of yourself to see how you could be a better father.
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"I have so many memories throughout my life that have been provided through baseball, but the strongest ones are those provided by my father. Almost all of the life lessons that my brothers, sister and I learned from dad were related to us through baseball. Jack Petrash seems to have captured that deep connection between fathers, their children, and baseball in Covering Home." - Cal Ripken, Jr
"Petrash poignantly brings the field of dreams down to earth for fathers. He loads the bases of parenting with relevant truisms and then brings them home with practical lessons." - Washington Post
..".will immediately become the kind of book passed on from friend to friend, from father to father, and from father to son or daughter...There are many more detailed books on fatherhood that are essential for a dad's library, but none so precious as this small wonder." - Publisher's Weekly
About the Author
Jack Petrash teaches grade school, has written for numerous parenting and education publications, and speaks before audiences around the U.S. and Canada. He is the father of three, including two college-age ballplayers. He lives in New York City.
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Covering Home, Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball
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Robins Lane Press, U.S.A., 2000
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Covering Home Lessons On The Art Of Fathering From The Game Of Baseball
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COVERING HOME
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Robins Lane Press, Beltsville, Maryland, 2000
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (xii) 114 pp. Personalized inscription on the half-title page by Jack Petrash. Quarter-bound in black cloth on beige boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. The Chapters are: If You Want the Season of a Lifetime Prepare for It; Understand the Pace of the Game and Manage Accordingly; To Be an All-Star Make the Highlight Film and Avoid the Blooper Reel; Good Habits Last All Season Long So Establish Them Early and Practice Them Often; Work Both Sides of the Plate; If You Have a Shallow Bench Keep Your Game Simple; Develop Well-rounded Players; Remember You Can't Win Them All; and Start a League of Your Own; followed by Extra Innings. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 229128
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Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (Fatherhood, Father and Child, Baseball) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # O07OS-00144
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Covering Home; Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. xii, 114, [2] pages. Inscribed on half-title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Mr. Petrash knows what he is talking about, having been a single parent of 2 sons and a daughter after a divorce, combined with his day job as a teacher. The book has nine lessons, just like the number of innings in a regulation game. He also has some extra inning advice if it goes longer. Jack Petrash interweaves advice and insights on how to be an effective, loving father with anecdotes and allegories of baseball. Using terms and illustrations from baseball, Petrash shows that to be a good father takes similar qualities required to be a good player: be present, establish routines early in a child's life, keep bad situations from escalating out of control, and avoid dwelling on parental failures by focusing on successes. Covering Home is one of the most reader friendly, accessible, and effective "how to" books on parenting ever written specifically for Dads. Winner of the National Parenting Publications Award. Willie Mays said that good players can play with their bodies, but great players play with their hearts and minds as well. The same is true for fathering. In Covering Home, author Jack Petrash combines a love for children with his love for the game of baseball to give fathers, or fathers-to-be, a new perspective on raising children.From the first few pages of Covering Home? There is a place where out passionate commitments converge, and it is there that fathering and baseball intertwine. The lessons that I have learned in one have instructed me in the other; how in fathering as in baseball you have to work on fundamentals, develop good habits, avoid errors, work on your control, and always keep in mind that you can't win them all? In the busyness of modern times where both parents work and travel and go back to school, fathers are repeatedly covering home. Knowing when to cover home is essential. It requires knowledge of what should happen in a given situation but also an awareness of what could go wrong. Whether it's an overthrow, a passed ball, a snow day or a sick child, we need to be alert, as well as ready and willing to act? Like baseball, fathering is a path of development?[It] will call on us to grow in ways we never imagined. Seller Inventory # 72882
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 0.5 X 5.5 X 8.5 inches; 114 pages; signed by author on the title page. Very minor foxing on the top exterior edge of textblock. Some minor smudges inside the DJ and on the surface as well. Light fading and some shelf wear on DJ. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings on text pages. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. 1st Edition (Unstated); No Printing Stated. Seller Inventory # HVD-68281-A-0
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