Teammate - My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages

Discusses the author's life and career, including his role as "Grandpa Rossy" on the Chicago Cubs 2016 championship-winning team.

About the author

David Ross is a retired Major League Baseball catcher, who won the World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2013 and the Chicago Cubs in 2016. In his fifteen-year career, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, and Chicago Cubs.Don Yaeger is an award-winning speaker, business leadership coach, a nine-time New York Timesbestselling author, and longtime Associate Editor for Sports Illustrated.

Summary

Packed with "compelling inside stories" (Chicago Tribune), Teammate is the inspiring memoir from "Grandpa Rossy," the veteran catcher who became the heart and soul of the 2016 Chicago Cubs championship team and was named manager in 2019.

In 2016 the Cubs snapped a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. Of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season, one stood out: the late-career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old catcher who had played back-up for 13 of his 15 pro seasons.

Beyond Ross's remarkably strong play, he became the ultimate positive force in the Cubs locker room, mentoring and motivating his fellow players, some of them nearly twenty years his junior. Thanks to Cubs Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, "Grandpa Rossy" became a social media sensation. No one, however, could have predicted that Ross's home run in his final career at bat would help seal the Cubs championship.

Now, in Teammate, Ross shares the inspiring story of his life in baseball, framed by the events of that unforgettable November night.

Product details

• Authors: David Ross, Don Yaeger, Yaeger Don
• Assisted by: Theo Epstein (Foreword), Theo Epstein (Introduction)
• Publisher: Yen Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2018
• EAN: 9780316559454
• ISBN: 978-0-316-55945-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 206 mm x 136 mm
• Weight: 230 g
• Assisted by: Don Yaeger
• Illustrations: 1 8-page, 4/C insert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Baseball, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General, Memoirs, Biography: sport