George Castle

Jackie Robinson West (eBook, ePUB)

The Triumph and Tragedy of America's Favorite Little League Team

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The competition level in Little League has never been tougher, but the kids on the Jackie Robinson West team faced their own set of challenges on and off the baseball diamond. The Jackie Robinson West team takes their fans and followers on a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs as each player shares a different part of the team's history and experience, including a double-header with President Obama. Jackie Robinson West: The Story of the Youngest America's Team leads readers on their harrowing path to the Little League World Series.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781630761271
• Artikelnr.: 44847830

Autorenporträt

George Castle has covered Major League Baseball and the Chicago Cubs since 1980 for a variety of newspapers and magazines. The author of twelve books, Castle hosts and produces a weekly syndicated baseball show, Diamond Gems. Castle has become a multimedia purveyor of baseball inside information and analysis, using a network of close clubhouse and front-office relationships to continually produce scoops and informative pieces that outflank other media. He has gotten to know¿and gain the trust¿of almost all of the important figures in Chicago and general baseball history. Castle has also appeared on a wide variety of network radiöincluding ESPN, Sporting News, and Sirius¿and local sports-talk radio programs. He was tapped by producers as one of the historical experts on the Cubs for Wait ¿Til Next Year: The Saga of the Chicago Cubs, the HBO 2006 special on the team. He lives in Chicago.