The dad report
Subtitle: fathers, sons, and baseball families
By: Kevin Cook
Edition: Center Point large print ed.
Publisher: Center Point Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Thorndike, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781628997194
Subjects: Family relationships; Baseball players; Baseball; Fathers and sons; Anecdotes
Description: "In The Dad Report, award-wining sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons--from sports superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father--share the game"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325).
Table of contents: title: Prologue: he calls his shot; title: Golden boy: Art Cook, beginnings; title: The talker and the thinker: Ron and Ike Davis; title: Miracles: Dan Haren, Sr. and Dan Haren, Jr.; title: Cooperstown: baseball's American dads; title: Drilling the muscle: three generations of Boones; title: Slumps and rumors: the Davises; title: Looking for the cure: Art Cook, midlife; title: Daddy's girl: Julia Ruth Stevens; title: The dad report: Art Cook, late innings; title: Giants with grudges: Bobby and Barry Bonds; title: "My father's dream": Michael Jordan; title: A pirate's life: the Davises; title: Two pennants and a funeral: bookies and Cooks; title: Epilogue: home of the ponies.