Showing One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season by Chris Ballard

HardCover Pub Date: 2012. Pages: 272 in Publisher: Hyperion The Inspirational Story of a Coach a Baseball Team and the Season They'll Never Forget In 1971 a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience. the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to represent the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final. a distinction that still stands. There. sporting long hair and warming up to Jesus Christ Superstar. the Ironmen would play a dramatic game against a Chicago powerhouse that would change their lives forever. In this gripping. cinematic narrative. Sports Illustrated writer Chris Ballard tells the story of the team and its coach. Lynn Sweet. a hippie. dreamer. and intellectual who arrived i...