John Smoltz was one of the greatest Major League pitchers of the late twentieth / early twenty-first centuryone of only two in baseball history ever to achieve twenty wins and fifty saves in single seasonsand now he shares the candid, no-holds-barred story of his life, his career, and the game he loves in Starting and Closing.A Cy Young Award-winner, future Baseball Hall of Famer, and currently a broadcaster for his former team, the Atlanta Braves, Smoltz delivers a powerful memoir with the kind of fascinating insight into game that made Moneyball a runaway bestseller, plus a heartfelt and truly inspiring faith and religious conviction, similar to what illuminates each page of Tim Tebows smash hit memoir, Through My Eyes.
Autorentext
Autorentext
John Smoltz is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and active sportscaster. He is best known for his prolific career of more than two decades with the Atlanta Braves, during which he garnered eight All-Star selections and received the Cy Young Award in 1996. He is currently the chairman of King's Ridge Christian School in Atlanta and is a scratch golfer. (Tiger Woods has said that Smoltz is the best golfer outside of the PGA tour.) He lives in Atlanta with his family.
Titel
Starting and Closing
Untertitel
Perseverance, Faith, and One More Year
Autor
EAN
9780062120557
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
19.03.2024
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12.51 MB
Anzahl Seiten
324
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