[bksvol-discuss] just submitted: Senior Year
- From: "Amber Wallenstein" <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:53:02 -0400
I just submitted "Senior Year: a father, a son, and high school baseball" by
"Dan Shaughnessy".
In Senior Year , Dan Shaughnessy focuses his acclaimed sportswriting talents
on his son Sam's senior year of high school, a turning point in any young
life and certainly in the relationship between father and son. Using that
experience, Shaughnessy also circles back to his own boyhood and calls on the
many sports greats he's known over the years-Ted Williams, Roger Clemens, Larry
Bird-to capture that uniquely American rite of passage that is sports.
Growing up, Dan Shaughnessy was so baseball-obsessed that he played games by
himself and didn't even let himself win. His son, Sam Shaughnessy, came by his
own love of sports naturally and was a natural hitter who quickly ascended the
ranks of youth sports. Now nicknamed the 3-2 Kid for his astonishing ability to
hover between success and failure in everything he does, Sam is finally a
senior, and it's all on the line: what college to attend; how to keep his
grades up and his head down until graduation; and whether his final high school
baseball season, which features foul weather, a hitting slump, and a surprising
clash with a longtime coach, will end in disappointment or victory.
All along the way, Dad is there chronicling that universal experience of
putting your child out on the field-and in the world and hoping for the best.
With gleaming insight, humor and mor, and, at times, the searching father,
Shaughnessy illuminates how
to connect generations and how
they help you shut up and let go.
DAN SHAUGHNESSY is an award- winning columnist for the Boston Globe and the
author of several books, including the best-selling classic The Curse of the
Bambino as well as Reversing the Curse and Fenway (with Stan Grossfeld).
Book blog:
http://community.livejournal.com/book_cuddler/
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have
consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give
you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams
E-Mail: amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx
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