“Hey Mom, wanna have a catch?”
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49 Baseball Stories That Will Warm Your Heart!
This anthology celebrates parenthood and the powerful influence moms and dads have on their sons’ and daughters’ lifelong love for baseball.
Author Rob Sheinkopf retired from a career in higher education and served as a Luxury Suites Concierge for the San Francisco Giants. At Oracle Park he listened to his guests tell their tales of fandom, oftentimes leading to emotional reminiscences with a parent at the center.
This is where Sheinkopf was inspired to write this book; recruiting, collecting, editing and meticulously curating these heartfelt narratives. He has eight of his own stories sprinkled throughout.
In this collection, you will read poignant reflections from award-winning authors, college professors, baseball broadcasters, former players, and fellow die-hard fans, offering a rich tapestry of perspectives:
- Read about a baseball trip this 12-year-old girl will never forget, driving with her dad from Tennessee to Dyersville, Iowa to see her first major league game.
- Experience a first-hand account from a 97-year-old lifelong baseball fan of spending a 1931 Sunday afternoon in Babe Ruth’s New York apartment with many of his teammates and friends.
- Learn how a man finds the silver lining and long-term benefits in never having played catch with his dad.
- Understand that Opening Day is not the best time to break a tooth, if you’re a patient of this Las Vegas dentist. He can always be found in his usual seat at Dodger Stadium, every year as the season begins.
- Read the touching story how a Pirates pitcher accompanied this high school senior to his school’s sports banquet after his father’s untimely death.
- Appreciate the struggle that African American minor league baseball players endured in the 1960’s through the perspective of a white teammate, and what price he paid to expose injustice.
- See how three daughters each learned to love baseball and the Boston Red Sox because of their father’s passion for the game, and his ability to relate to each of them.
Relive your memories through these heartwarming stories, as you reflect on your own relationship with your mom or dad, and your love of America’s National Pastime.
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Praise for this book
What a beautiful collection of stories. Even if you are not a baseball fan, this book connects you to the relationships people have gained through our national pastime.
I am only halfway through this book and I am loving it! As a woman passionate about the game of baseball, reading stories from others who also love the game is heartwarming. That these stories reveal the fans side, family history and or a parent child relationship, adds yet another level of interest.
Really a good read, especially for those of us with a short attention span. I picked it up and read a chapter when I had the time, some were good, most were very good, but all kept my attention, and they all struck a nerve, reminding me of my own recently departed mother... and my childhood. I never knew my father, never played catch with my mother, but I know she supported my love of the Cleveland Indians in so many ways. I recommend this book to middle-age guys like me who love baseball and grew up being an obsessed fan.
I have read a lot of baseball books in my life about teams, players but this is different in a very relatable way with stories about all of us regular folks and the role of parents and baseball in our lives. a lot great stories by people of all ages and backgrounds.