num_pages: 288
description: He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and throw a baseball. For Jim, the passion of becoming a major-league ballplayer was his anchor and inspiration...until injuries and life got in the way.A decade after Jim walked away from the minors and began a life of fatherhood and mortgage payments, he made a promise to the hardscrabble high-school team he coached: If they could win their local championship, he would try out again for the big leagues. They did-and he did. Now, in this wondrous, heart-tugging book, Jim Morris tells the story of his remarkable life and his amazing journey to the Big Show at the age of thirty-five . . . and how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream.
language: English
title: The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream
titlecomplete: The Rookie: The Incredible True Story of a Man Who Never Gave Up on His Dream
genres: Biography Memoir, Biography, Sports, Memoir, Nonfiction, Baseball
ratings_count: 299
publisher: Grand Central Publishing