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

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Patrick Montgomery Pat Gillick, professional baseball exe

Baseball's Great Expectations

Candid Stories of Ballplayers Who Didn't Live Up to the Hype

Patrick Montgomery, Pat Gillick, professional baseball exe, Bob Elliott

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English

Rowman & Littlefield
05 March 2024

Prose: non-fiction; Baseball

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 Expectations: Candid Stories of Ballplayers Who Didn't Live Up to the Hype, Patrick Montgomery brings out from the shadows nine of those players who were once poised for greatness. They include a player who received a then-record-breaking MLB Draft signing bonus, a left-handed pitcher who was ordained to be the next Sandy Koufax, the only catcher to go straight from high school to the major leagues during the MLB Draft Era, and more. Drawing from extensive interviews with the players, family members, general managers, executives, scouts, and more, Montgomery shines a fresh light on these players and provides a candid perspective on the major leagues. Players reflect on their careers, what went wrong, how they feel about baseball now that their playing days are over, and, for many of them, how they have found new purpose in their lives.

Baseball’s Great Expectations reveals an often-overlooked side of professional baseball, of the struggles with injury, mental exhaustion, pressure, temptations, and sometimes just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The path to baseball stardom is not as glamorous as it is sometimes made out to be, and this book reveals just how difficult the journey truly is.

By: Patrick Montgomery
Foreword by: Pat Gillick professional baseball exe, Bob Elliott
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9781538181805
ISBN 10: 1538181800
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 05 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patrick Montgomery is an award-winning writer. His most recent book, The Baseball Miracle of the Splendid 6, garnered 1st place for Sports Book at the 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Awards and was a winner in the 2022 Hollywood Book Festival. Montgomery is a youth softball coach, baseball historian, student of the game, and member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

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

Baseball is the ultimate game of failure, and Patrick Montgomery delivers a fascinating inside look at how the sport can defeat even its most gifted prospects. A must read for any fan of the national pastime, and for anyone who cares about the profound human struggle to master it. Ian O’Connor, four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter -- Ian O'Connor, four-time New York Times bestselling author of The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter In this case, I defer to the noted baseball sage John Greenleaf Whittier: “For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” -Bob Costas, NBC Sports -- Bob Costas, NBC Sports