Charles Byrum

A Boys' Game (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A remarkable book. The story of Hank Branson and his teammates captures what senior softball is all about."

-Terry Hennessy, Chief Executive Officer Senior Softball USA

Hank Branson, 58, has no intention of giving in to middle age. Active, energetic, and youthful in his thinking, he does everything he can to avoid falling into the routines that signify the onset of the aging process and the inevitable winding down and settling in that occur for thousands of Americans each day. It is getting tougher for him to keep up the fight and he needs help.

One day, a friend tells Hank about a senior softball organization where teams of players over 50 years of age play tournaments throughout the summer against others their age, with the best being invited to play in a world championship tournament in Las Vegas at the end of the season. Fascinated, he contacts the local team in Chicago where he lives and is invited to play. On a whim, he accepts.

A Boys' Game is the story of a hastily assembled team of total strangers from all walks of life who share only the common love of playing baseball, which they did as boys, and the determination to give it one last shot, despite their ages. The team is called the Gray Sox.

The book describes the summer experience of the Gray Sox playing other senior teams from Kansas City to Lansing, MI, and everywhere in between and the gradual improvement of the team, which leads to a coveted invitation to play in the world championship. It is the humorous but touching story of the lives of the men on the team, their hopes for the future, and how they deal with the issues of the present, bolstered by their rediscovery of playing the game of baseball, which had been such an important part of their past, and by being given the opportunity to play it again. It is an uplifting story of second chances.

There is something in the book for everyone, no matter what their age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jurnal Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781956854060
• Artikelnr.: 62929534

Autorenporträt

Charles Byrum is an American author, as well as a lawyer and Arbitrator, who lives in the Chicago area. Throughout his life, he has been involved in team sports as a player, a coach, and manager of baseball and softball teams at all levels, including youth programs, park district teams, high school, and college. He has experienced a constant awareness of the physical, social, and psychological benefits the team experience can provide to the individuals who participate, particularly seniors who continue to do so after their peak physical years and has written A Boys' Game, a book about a team of senior softball players who challenge the aging process which has set into their lives. This book is an uplifting story about how a valuable segment of our society faces and overcomes the situations and challenges that confront them.