Description
Ten years ago, Jim Collins chronicled a season within the life of one team: the Chatham A’s, most likely probably the most celebrated team within the league. Set against the backdrop of a resort town at the bend of the outer Cape, the story charted the changing fortunes of a handful of players battling slumps and self-doubt in their effort to make the league playoffs and, more importantly, impress the major league scouts.
Over the last decade, baseball’s hard truths became evident for the Chatham stars who went on to play professionally, and the final chapter of their story can now be written. In a new afterword for the tenth anniversary, Collins explores questions that sports literature rarely touches: What does it mean to devote your life to an almost unimaginable goal and almost but not moderately make it? Or make it only briefly before it slips away? What does a dream appear to be in retrospect? How does the game look now?