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‘One of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America.’-Time In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opposing batters for his Fairfield, Connecticut, high school baseball team. Fifteen major league clubs offered him a contract, but it was the Milwaukee Braves who won out, signing Jordan to a $45,000 bonus-one of the largest paid to any new player by the organization-and shipping him off to McCook, Nebraska, to play for their Class D ball club. It did not take long, however, for Jordan to realize he was out of his depth in professional baseball’s backwoods. He battled with inconsistency and a lack of control for three dismal seasons in such far-flung locales as Keokuk, Iowa, and Palatka, Florida, before the Braves released him and he gave up his dreams of big league greatness. Declared ‘unforgettable’ by the Los Angeles Times and ‘a major triumph’ by the Philadelphia Inquirer, A False Spring is a powerful and deeply affecting memoir about the gift of athletic talent and the heartbreak of unfulfilled promise. Read more…
Abstract: ‘One of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America.’-Time In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opposing batters for his Fairfield, Connecticut, high school baseball team. Fifteen major league clubs offered him a contract, but it was the Milwaukee Braves who won out, signing Jordan to a $45,000 bonus-one of the largest paid to any new player by the organization-and shipping him off to McCook, Nebraska, to play for their Class D ball club. It did not take long, however, for Jordan to realize he was out of his depth in professional baseball’s backwoods. He battled with inconsistency and a lack of control for three dismal seasons in such far-flung locales as Keokuk, Iowa, and Palatka, Florida, before the Braves released him and he gave up his dreams of big league greatness. Declared ‘unforgettable’ by the Los Angeles Times and ‘a major triumph’ by the Philadelphia Inquirer, A False Spring is a powerful and deeply affecting memoir about the gift of athletic talent and the heartbreak of unfulfilled promise
«یکی از بهترین و واقعیترین کتابها درباره بیسبال، و در مورد به بلوغ رسیدن در آمریکا.» – زمان در اواخر دهه 1950، پت جردن، ورزشنویس تحسینشده، پدیدهای جوان بود که در فیرفیلد، کانکتیکات، بیسبال دبیرستانی خود، ضربات حریف را از بین میبرد. تیم پانزده باشگاه لیگ برتر به او پیشنهاد قرارداد دادند، اما این تیم میلواکی بریوز بود که برنده شد و جردن را با یک پاداش 45000 دلاری امضا کرد. بازیکن توسط سازمان – و ارسال او به مک کوک، نبراسکا، تا برای باشگاه توپ کلاس D خود بازی کند. با این حال طولی نکشید که جردن متوجه شد که در زمین های بیسبال حرفه ای از عمق خود خارج شده است. او قبل از اینکه Braves او را آزاد کنند و او از رویاهای خود برای عظمت لیگ بزرگ دست بکشد، سه فصل در مناطق دورافتاده مانند Keokuk، آیووا، و Palatka، فلوریدا با ناهماهنگی و عدم کنترل مبارزه کرد. بهار کاذب که توسط لس آنجلس تایمز “فراموش نشدنی” و توسط فیلادلفیا پرسشگر “پیروزی بزرگ” اعلام شده است، خاطرات قدرتمند و عمیقاً تأثیرگذار درباره موهبت استعدادهای ورزشی و شکست قلب وعدههای محقق نشده است. ادامه مطلب…
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