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Author Tackett, Michael, author.

Title The baseball whisperer : a small-town coach who shaped big league dreams / Michael Tackett.

Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ©2016.

ISBN 9780544387645
0544387643



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Description 253 pages, 4 unpaged plates ; 22 cm
Contents Foreword -- Changed lives -- A place to grow -- "Come out or get out" -- Where the work ethic still works -- Baseball family -- National champions -- Merl's rules -- "No bright lights" -- Opportunity -- Stepping off the field -- Keeping -- Renewal -- Blue goose -- Heading home -- Afterword.
Summary Traces the five-decade career of legendary coach Merl Eberly, describing his role in transforming a small town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse and his development of numerous major league players.
Subject Eberly, Merl.
Subject(S) Baseball coaches -- United States -- Biography.
Baseball -- Iowa -- Clarinda.
Biographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780544387645
0544387643