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Zusatztext "When Smoltz talks about baseball! the book comes alive . . . it all has the ring of authenticity and wisdom." Informationen zum Autor John Smoltz is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and active sportscaster. He is best known for his prolific career of more than two decades with the Atlanta Braves, during which he garnered eight All-Star selections and received the Cy Young Award in 1996. He is currently the chairman of King's Ridge Christian School in Atlanta and is a scratch golfer. (Tiger Woods has said that Smoltz is the best golfer outside of the PGA tour.) He lives in Atlanta with his family. Klappentext As a seven-year-old kid pitching a ball against a brick wall, John Smoltz decided to be a professional baseball player when he grew up. And from that simple decision until his last season on the mound in the major leagues, it was his faith, work ethic, and love for the game that propelled him through challenges that would have ruined other athletes. Starting and Closing chronicles the final season in a legendary career that included fourteen years in one of the most dominant rotations in baseball, a Cy Young Award, and a World Series title—all while battling and overcoming "career-ending" injuries. Recounting a season that tested his perseverance and deepened his faith, Smoltz flashes back to watershed moments in the skeptic-defying journey from being one of the best starting pitchers of all time, to closer, to starter again. What emerges is an inspirational story from a man who believed not just in himself but in God's plan for him—and one more year. Zusammenfassung John Smoltz was one of the greatest Major League pitchers of the late twentieth / early twenty-first century—one of only two in baseball history ever to achieve twenty wins and fifty saves in single seasons—and now he shares the candid! no-holds-barred story of his life! his career! and the game he loves in Starting and Closing . A Cy Young Award-winner! future Baseball Hall of Famer! and currently a broadcaster for his former team! the Atlanta Braves! Smoltz delivers a powerful memoir with the kind of fascinating insight into game that made Moneyball a runaway bestseller! plus a heartfelt and truly inspiring faith and religious conviction! similar to what illuminates each page of Tim Tebow’s smash hit memoir! Through My Eyes . ...
