Scott Christopher

Baseball, Art, and Dreams

An American Baseball Memoir

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Baseball, Art, and Dreams is the amazing true story of Scott Christopher, a boy who loved the game of baseball. At age six he falls on the broken soda bottle, severing all seven tendons, median nerve, and both arteries in his throwing hand. Some said Scott had ten minutes to live, and shockingly his team of doctors considered amputation. After years of grueling rehabilitation, weighing less than one hundred pounds as a junior, he did make the high school varsity baseball team. With no surprise, Scott had the worst season of any varsity player in the country, batting zero with three strikeouts in four plate appearances. His supernatural forces surfaced by his creative thinking that became laser focused on his dream. Scott built a batting cage in his backyard, hitting day and night, staining his bat handles blood red. His proactive efforts earned him the MVP trophy his senior year. With an ongoing dream of playing for the Maryland, even as Scott was turned away three times over the next three seasons, was all part of his journey to success. His career shifted gears when Maryland's head coach, Jack Jackson, offered Scott a full scholarship after witnessing him blast a 380-foot home run in a championship game. Scott's super human ability to focus his energy on his vision takes his life into uncharted territory. When one season was very compromised due to a car accident, he would recover earning MVP honors both his junior and senior seasons. Selected on the All-ACC team as a shortstop, but bypassed in the 1976 MLB June draft, opportunity revealed itself in a new way, offering the chance to play baseball in Korea. It was January 1977 when he signed a professional contract with the Baltimore Orioles. Over the next four seasons his teams made the playoffs every year. He still holds the all-time organizational record for stolen base percentage in a season. In 1978, Scott become a professional champion, and the only player in the Orioles system to ever hit a ninth inning home run in the final playoff game for the title. Learn how his AMAZING story beats the almost one in a million odds as passion and purpose drive Scott's success. His American Baseball Memoir is an INSPIRATIONAL story for everyone. Readers should get ready to "Dream Big, Dream On!"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Soaring Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 882g
• ISBN-13: 9780998815701
• ISBN-10: 0998815705
• Artikelnr.: 69155968

Autorenporträt

Scott Christopher has an amazing true-life story to tell. Read how he conquered a major injury to his throwing hand and arm, at age six, and never gave up his dream to become a professional baseball champion. Scott is proof one can overcome monumental odds and live an extraordinary life. Baseball, Art and Dreams, is a miraculous account of how Scott becomes a professional baseball champion, experienced the dream when he hits a ninth inning home run in the final game, and winning that championship RING. This new book explores his deep creative mind and the many ways he experiences life as an artist in an athlete's body. Readers will enjoy this inspiring story as Scott paints with words like colorful brushstrokes on his canvas of life. Each chapter representing an inning of his story, expanding into a mural of inspiration through accomplishments that will provide hope for all who understand the challenge of overcoming obstacles, building character, and living life to its fullest. As Cal Ripkin Jr said, ". . . one of the fastest guys I ever played with . . . Scott was always in tune with his experiences on the baseball field. He understood the joys of life beyond most of us. He was a free spirit."