The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream

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Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, young college baseball players showcase their talents in hopes of making it to the “show.” A vicious filter, the league has produced one out of each and every six major league players, from Nomar Garciaparra and Todd Helton to Jeff Bagwell and Barry Zito.On this brilliantly crafted narrative, Jim Collins chronicles a season in the life of the Chatham A’s, most likely the most celebrated team in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Set against a seemingly bucolic backdrop–a well-heeled resort town at the bend of the outer Cape–the story charts the changing fortunes of a handful of players, all of whom battle slumps and self-doubt so to impress major league scouts and make the playoffs. Several players go home with career-threatening injuries; one blue-chip prospect fulfills great expectations at the same time as every other is dubbed “the biggest disappointment at the Cape.” A pitcher hides an arm injury at the same time as negotiating a minor league contract; every other leaves early to have a tendency to his dying father. And nearly all look to the following year’s major league draft as a barometer of their worth. Excess of a baseball book, The Last Best League is an engrossing story about dreams fulfilled and dreams destroyed, about Cape Cod and the rites of summer, about coming of age in The usa.
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