We Played Baseball - Paperback

While struggling to reunite his broken family, young Bryan discovers that kid's baseball is not just a game, not about baseball, and has little to do with kids. Coach is a very successful and powerful man living in a world of trophies. He knows about winning: "Work hard, sacrifice, and do whatever you need to do to WIN. The real world only rewards the WINNERS. The sooner you realize that the better off you will be." Mike, our assistant coach, has struck out many times in life. Baseball has given him a lot, he just lost it somewhere. He still has something to give back and does with his "not quite by the book" methods of teaching us the game and learning something himself. Kids, coaches, and parents all bring their ambitions, frustrations, desires, and fears to clash in a simply too-true and emotional baseball story.