| Description |
viii, 280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Subtitle from cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Mariano Rivera tells his story for the first time: the championships, the bosses (including the Boss), the rivalries, the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States, and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics. The twelve-time All-Star will discuss what it's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Fish and consequences -- Water torture -- Two buses, nine pitches -- Gulf Coast revelation -- Worst cut -- The call -- Relief and belief -- Shades of '27 -- Spirit and summit -- New York, New York -- The day the world changed -- Trophy -- Plans -- Losses -- Cheers and jeers -- Count me out -- Closing time -- New digs and old feelings -- Passages -- Wounded knee -- Exit Sandman -- Epilogue: Refuge of hope. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.1 15.0 171421. |
| Subject |
Rivera, Mariano, 1969-
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Relief pitchers (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography.
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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Pitching (Baseball)
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Baseball players -- Panama -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Coffey, Wayne R.
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| ISBN |
0316400734: $28.00 |
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9780316400732: $28.00 |
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