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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Tackett, Michael.     Subjects     Eberly, Merl.     Clarinda A's (Baseball team)     Baseball coaches -- Iowa -- Clarinda -- Biography.     Baseball -- Iowa -- Clarinda.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tackett, Michael.       by title:      The baseball whisper...       by call number:      796.357092 E16t     Search the Web     Tackett, Michael.     Eberly, Merl.     Clarinda A's (Baseball team)     Baseball coaches -- Iowa -- Clarinda -- Biography.     Baseball -- Iowa -- Clarinda.       MARC Display

The baseball whisperer : a small-town coach who shaped big league dreams / Michael Tackett. by Tackett, Michael. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Call #: 796.357092 E16t Subjects Eberly, Merl.   Clarinda A's (Baseball team)   Baseball coaches -- Iowa -- Clarinda -- Biography.   Baseball -- Iowa -- Clarinda. ISBN:  9780544387645 (hc.) Description:  xvi, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Contents:  Foreword -- Changed lives -- A place to grow -- "Come out or get out" -- Where the work ethic still works -- Baseball family -- National champions -- Merl's rules -- "No bright lights" -- Opportunity -- Stepping off the field -- Keeping -- Renewal -- Blue goose -- Heading home -- Afterword. Summary:  "Traces the ... story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A's baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players (six of which are currently playing). In the process, Merl taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility"--Dust jacket flap. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 796.357092 E16t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Biography 796.357092 E16t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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