Third Base for Life: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Baseball
Language: English
Published by Vantage Point, 2012
- Softcover
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- Title
- Third Base for Life: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Baseball
- Author
- Berkowitz, Joshua L.
- Publisher
- Vantage Point
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1936467224
- ISBN 13
- 9781936467228
- Item weight
- 0.95 pounds
Third Base for Life is the true story of twelve bungling and inept fourth grade boys from a small Jewish day school in Newton, Massachusetts who band together to challenge the top ten-year old baseball talent in the country at Cooperstown Dreams Park, one of the nations most prestigious youth tournaments. Every summer since 1996, ten thousand elite players from California to Florida visit Dreams Park in upstate New York to measure themselves against the very best. Major League Baseballs annual draft is replete with players who at one time in their lives graced the diamonds of Cooperstown.
Third Base for Life is the first hand account of how an ordinary father who has not played baseball since Little League, manages to put together a group of kids from his sons small religious school and somehow gain admittance into a tournament (and a world) where they simply do not belong. The story spans a year and half of the authors life as he reluctantly gives into his sons wishes and, against his better judgment, organizes a team of Jewish Bad News Bears. The ragtag group must learn to play baseball, come together as a team, face formidable opponents and deal with tragic illness. Ultimately, as they square off against other teams from across the country whose talent is light-years beyond theirs, the author and the boys learn that losing can bring gifts of its own while finding strength to confront ones fears can be a reward in and of itself"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Born and raised in Boston, JOSHUA BERKOWITZ is an avid Red Sox fan. His days of playing baseball sadly ended with Little League, but fortunately Josh landed on his feet. He currently practices internal medicine on the north shore of Boston and enjoys spending time with his wife, Sheryl, and their two children, Gabriel and Shoshana. When not writing or seeing patients in the office, Josh cherishes spending time with his family. His passions include floating aimlessly on the Saco River in Maine, hiking with his Newfoundland pup and tossing a baseball with the kids.
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