Opening Day

Opening Day
ISBN-10
1770670572
ISBN-13
9781770670570
Series
Opening Day
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2011-07
Publisher
FriesenPress
Author
Ric Davies

Description

This book is not only about baseball, but you will enjoy the drama, romance, sights, sounds and all things associated with the love of the game. The book will make you long for the days when baseball was America's game and kids played all day long on a sandlot. It will make you long for the days when being a fan counted and you were proud of your home team and really wanted to be at the home team's ball park! Author and coach Ric Davies shows his own passion for the game in OPENING DAY and helps you to remember your own! You will enjoy this story and relive a time when this game and all that it represents was truly bigger than life!

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