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Baseball's Great Expectations: Candid Stories of Ballplayers Who Didn't Live Up to the Hype

By Patrick Montgomery, Pat Gillick (Foreword by), Bob Elliott (Foreword by)
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$39.60
By Patrick Montgomery, Pat Gillick (Foreword by), Bob Elliott (Foreword by)
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"[It’s] Montgomery’s journalistic eye for distilling the humanity behind the unfulfilled athletic potential that makes this a real home run." — Booklist, Starred Review • A Booklist Top 10 Book on Sports 2024
Stories of baseball idols and heroes are oft—repeated, but what about those players who everyone thought would be the next “great one” and have since disappeared from the sport? What happened after they failed to meet the weighty expectations placed on them?
In Baseball's Great Expectati...

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