R. Lloyd Hall

Good Losers (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Good Losers" takes us to a small Midwestern town called Coral. It has only had its own high school for five years and its football team has never won a single game, going 0-45. On top of that, their head football coach has just quit only a few weeks before the start of fall football practice to take a teaching job in another state. Enter Coach Henry Gayton, a highly successful but now retired Hall of Fame head college football coach who lives in Coral. Discouraged at first with the lack of talent, Coach is determined to make them into winners. The only really talented player, initially, is Dexter Middleton. But building a whole team around a lineman, even a great one, is very difficult. Along the way, Coach is able to add several players to the team and this is the story of how this group of "losers" came together to become not only a team but a family. This story has been floating around in the back of the author's mind for over 40 years and now he would like to share it with you. There are sad parts, happy parts, and funny parts. Hopefully, you will have as much fun reading it as the author had writing it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WestBow Press
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798385026463
• Artikelnr.: 72351617

Autorenporträt

The author is a lifelong sports fan, having served as play-by-play announcer for football, basketball, and even a few baseball games for three years for the Northern Illinois Huskies on the college radio station. There he got to interview many of the players. A few years after graduation he was the public address announcer for races at a local motocross track near Antioch, Illinois. Getting to know some of the competitors he found the great majority of athletes to be quite "normal" and "human," with the same feelings as the rest of us. They do, however, have a lot of extra challenges and they compete on a much larger and more public stage. To show that side of them is why he wanted to write this book. Obviously there are always a few primadonnas but those are the exceptions. In spite of the Mrs. Farnsworths of the world who only see a final score and call a team "Losers," every player who gives every ounce of effort they have on the field but comes up short is a winner no matter what the scoreboard may say.