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Just Need An Opportunity: Let's Play Ball
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ISBN13: 9798395796707
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 6 2023
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 6 2023
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when raw talent meets a world that keeps saying not yet? Just Need An Opportunity: Let's Play Ball is the memoir of former professional baseball player Tony Vlahovic - a story about grinding through rejection, seizing the moments most people miss, and turning the hardest innings of a life into something that matters far beyond the diamond. Sports teaches you things a classroom rarely can. Timing. Pressure. How to fail in front of everyone and still show up tomorrow. Tony Vlahovic's journey through professional baseball and into coaching reveals what happens when you refuse to let circumstances have the final word. The lessons here go far deeper than box scores. But this book is about more than one career. It's about the people on the sidelines - the athletes, students, and individuals with disabilities who are too often told to wait, step aside, or settle. Vlahovic's work as a coach and mentor shows what becomes possible when someone finally says: you're up. - A candid, first-person memoir from a former professional baseball player
- Honest lessons on resilience, preparation, and seizing opportunity under pressure
- A coach's perspective on mentorship and inclusion in sport and life
- Written for athletes, coaches, educators, and parents who believe sport changes lives
- Explores disability inclusion in sport through real experience, not theory If you believe sport has the power to reshape a life - and that everyone deserves a fair shot at the plate - this is the book you've been looking for. Pick up your copy and step up to the plate.
- A coach's perspective on mentorship and inclusion in sport and life
- Written for athletes, coaches, educators, and parents who believe sport changes lives
- Explores disability inclusion in sport through real experience, not theory If you believe sport has the power to reshape a life - and that everyone deserves a fair shot at the plate - this is the book you've been looking for. Pick up your copy and step up to the plate.
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