Four Months...And A Lifetime: A Father, His Son, And Their Epic Basketball Team's Nine-Year Journey Together

by Chris Meyer

Overview

"Our seasons lasted only four months, but the memories will last lifetimes."

Four Months...And A Lifetime is the touching true story of a father who coached his son's basketball team from kindergarten through eighth grade, a remarkable nine-year journey with the same boys.

Their final march to the eighth-grade season Championship is interspersed with the author's own journey of falling in love with basketball in early-seventies New York, filled with anecdotes of Dr. J, sneaking into Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium, and playing pickup in Larry Bird's home state of Indiana.

Four Months... And A Lifetime is not only a love story about a father and his son, but of a coach who strived to teach his team the greatest game of basketball and, hopefully, a few life lessons along the way.

Touching. Honest. True.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781733344340
Publisher:	Meaning of Life Publishing
Publication date:	09/01/2021
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Locked and Loaded

2. The Smell of Home

3. Underpants and Alligators

4. Corn Dogs and Fries Are a Good Way to Die

5. A Thing of Complete and Utter Beauty

6. The 'Chute Won't Open

7. Sometimes the Clothes Do Make the Man

8. Hemorroids

9. Sympathy for the Devil

10. Dropping the Hammer ... on My Foot

11. 41 Hillview Drive

12. Christmas in October

13. Earth, Wind & Fire and the Highway Patrol

14. How We Roll

15. The Cobbler and Me, a Love Story

16. Shit Sandwich

17. This is $%#*%^ Indiana!

18. Hoop Dreams Forever

19. Not Taking the Hint

20. Smooth Like Sandpaper

21. And a Child Shall Lead Them

22. A Box of Chocolates

23. Forevermore

Epilogue

Rules of the Game

Favorite Basketball Movies

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

"Chris has written a touching story of a father and his son playing, coaching, and falling in love with the greatest game on earth. It is both captivating and filled with great anecdotes from a guy who truly knows and loves the game."

-Brian "White Mamba" Scalabrine, Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, and New Jersey Nets

"Touching, uplifting, inspirational and a heck of a lot of fun."

-Gregory Zuckerman, co-author of Rising Above, How 111 Athletes Overcame Challenges in their Youth to Become Stars, The Man Who Solved the Market, and Frackers

"Chris Meyer has penned a family basketball odyssey-a journey from thehardwood court to the heart of a father/son relationship. His deftly balanced prose has the feel of a basketball resting comfortably on your fingertips."

-Paul Volponi, author of Black and White, The Final Four, and Streetball is Life

"Unsuspecting readers might think they've simply picked up a primer on the joys and pitfalls of coaching middle school basketball. But Chris Meyer's meticulously crafted work intertwines his deep love of family with an expansive knowledge of basketball, especially the nuanced ways in which the game can foster teamwork and reveal the true character of those who are caught up in its orbit. Of particular interest is the author's endearing description of what it's like to call "next" as a newcomer in a seemingly hostile gym, which reads like a youthful but not necessarily naïve hostage negotiator rescuing a long-lost family heirloom from a grumpy pawnbroker."

-Craig Leener, author of This Was Never About Basketball and All Roads Lead to Lawrence

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