Heart of the Game

Life, Death, and Mercy in Minor League America

af S.L. Price

From the author of Pitching Around Fidel and Far Afield comes a tragic?but ultimately uplifting?account of the accidental death of minor league first base coach Mike Coolbaugh, illustrating the many ways in which baseball still has a hold on America.This season's Friday Night Lights, Heart of the Game centers on the death of Mike Coolbaugh, a minor league coach who was killed in July 2007 by a foul ball rocketed off Tino Sanchez's bat. Coolbaugh died almost instantly, his body carted off the fie... (Læs mere)