Cup of Coffee Club

11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvJacob Kornhauser

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“This is one of the very best baseball books in years.” Booklist, Starred ReviewReaching the major leagues is a pipe dream for most young baseball players in America. Very few ever get to live it out. A select number of those players face the elation and frustration of getting to play in just one major league game.The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History tells the unique stories of eleven of these players. It details their struggles to reach the major leagues, their one moment in the limelight, and their struggles to get back. They include a former Major League Baseball manager, the son of a Baseball Hall of Famer, and two different brothers of Hall of Famers. Exclusive interviews with each of the players provide insight into what that single seminal moment meant and how they dealt with the blow of never making another major league appearance again.Spanning half a century of baseball, each player’s journey to Major League Baseball is distinct, as is each of their responses to having played in just a single game. The Cup of Coffee Club shares their unique perspectives, providing a better understanding of just how special each major league game can be.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-01-22
Mått154 x 224 x 12 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor212
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538175453

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Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: The Invisible Battle 1: Charlie Lindstrom: September 28, 1958 2: Roe Skidmore: September 17, 1970 3: Larry Yount: September 15, 19714: Gary Martz: July 8, 1975 5: Rafael Montalvo: April 13, 1986 6: Jeff Banister: July 23, 1991 7: Stephen Larkin: September 27, 1998 8: Jon Ratliff: September 15, 2000 9: Ron Wright: April 14, 2002 10: Sam Marsonek: July 11, 2004 11: Matt Tupman: May 18, 2008 12: Other “Cup of Coffee” Stories Closing Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Kornhauser details the journeys of 11 players who made the majors for a single game. Some never made it back due to injury; for others, it was lack of talent. Circumstances often drive the shortness of a career: perhaps the role a team envisioned for a player is usurped when someone playing the same position develops more quickly. Or maybe the front-office staff who believed in a player’s potential was fired en masse. The rigors of minor-league life—two steps up the hierarchy, then one back—also drive players to abandon the dream and get on with life. Kornhauser examines all of these situations in his moving profiles of these 11 one-game wonders. This is one of the very best baseball books in years. Readers will put faces and names to what they knew on a subliminal level: major-league baseball is really, really hard, and a lot of fine young players get left behind.