The baseball whisperer
Subtitle: a small-town coach who shaped big league dreams
By: Michael Tackett
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780544387645
Subjects: Baseball coaches; Baseball; Biography
Description: "Traces the ... story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A's baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players (six of which are currently playing). In the process, Merl taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility"--Dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Changed lives; title: A place to grow; title: "Come out or get out"; title: Where the work ethic still works; title: Baseball family; title: National champions; title: Merl's rules; title: "No bright lights"; title: Opportunity; title: Stepping off the field; title: Keeping; title: Renewal; title: Blue goose; title: Heading home; title: Afterword.