A False Spring: A Memoir
Apr 2016 ยท Open Road Media
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โOne of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America.โ โTime
In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opposing batters for his Fairfield, Connecticut, high school baseball team. Fifteen major league clubs offered him a contract, but it was the Milwaukee Braves who won out, signing Jordan to a $45,000 bonusโone of the largest paid to any new player by the organizationโand shipping him off to McCook, Nebraska, to play for their Class D ball club.
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It did not take long, however, for Jordan to realize he was out of his depth in professional baseballโs backwoods. He battled with inconsistency and a lack of control for three dismal seasons in such far-flung locales as Keokuk, Iowa, and Palatka, Florida, before the Braves released him and he gave up his dreams of big league greatness.
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Declared โunforgettableโ by the Los Angeles Times and โa major triumphโ by the Philadelphia Inquirer, A False Spring is a powerful and deeply affecting memoir about the gift of athletic talent and the heartbreak of unfulfilled promise.
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In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opposing batters for his Fairfield, Connecticut, high school baseball team. Fifteen major league clubs offered him a contract, but it was the Milwaukee Braves who won out, signing Jordan to a $45,000 bonusโone of the largest paid to any new player by the organizationโand shipping him off to McCook, Nebraska, to play for their Class D ball club.
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It did not take long, however, for Jordan to realize he was out of his depth in professional baseballโs backwoods. He battled with inconsistency and a lack of control for three dismal seasons in such far-flung locales as Keokuk, Iowa, and Palatka, Florida, before the Braves released him and he gave up his dreams of big league greatness.
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Declared โunforgettableโ by the Los Angeles Times and โa major triumphโ by the Philadelphia Inquirer, A False Spring is a powerful and deeply affecting memoir about the gift of athletic talent and the heartbreak of unfulfilled promise.
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Dead on arrival from start to finish๐ข....๐ชถ๐ชฝGeneral๐๏ธ New ERA'S....๐my others b-less apologies apologize to self best regards taste buds forgiveness shytmouffs standing strong outside under where......๐๐๐Daughtry hear&here charted shyt st.ainne......๐Oak-Lee๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โฝโช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฝ๐งฉ๐ฟ๐ญ๐ฌ
About the author
Pat Jordan is a celebrated sportswriter and novelist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, GQ, Harperโs, the New Yorker, Playboy, and the New York Times Magazine, among many other publications. A top high school pitching prospect, he spent three years with the Milwaukee Braves organization before leaving professional baseball to pursue a writing career. Time magazine praised A False Spring, a memoir about his time in the minor leagues, as โone of the best and truest books about baseball and about coming to maturity in America,โ and Sports Illustrated named it one of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. In the follow-up, A Nice Tuesday, Jordan chronicles his unlikely return to the mound at the age of fifty-six. His numerous other books include the sports anthologies The Suitors of Spring, Broken Patterns, and The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan, and the crime novels a.k.a. Sheila Doyle and a.k.a. Sheila Weinstein.
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