# The Rookie

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- Book: [The Rookie](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-morrison/the-rookie) ([The Rookie.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-morrison/the-rookie.md))
- Authors: [Jim Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-morrison), [Joel Engel](https://www.bookquiver.com/joel-engel)
- Publisher: grand_central_publishing
- ISBN: 978-04-4667-837-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

He Played A Boy's Game. He Lived A Man's Life. As a lonely child, Jim Morris took one thing with him wherever his family moved-his ability to hit and throw a baseball. For Jim, the passion of becoming a major-league ballplayer was his anchor and inspiration... until injuries and life got in the way. A decade after Jim walked away from the minors and began a life of fatherhood and mortgage payments, he made a promise to the hardscrabble high-school team he coached: If they could win their local championship, he would try out again for the big leagues. They did-and he did. Now, in this wondrous, heart-tugging book, Jim Morris tells the story of his remarkable life and his amazing journey to the Big Show at the age of thirty-five... and how he finally fulfilled his childhood dream.