Dawn's review
The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream by Jim Collins
Anyone familiar with college baseball has heard of the prestigious Cape Cod League, where the top collegiate players hone their craft playing against each other in New England. In this book, Jim Collins follows one team, the Chatham A's, for the entire 2002 season. We get to know some of the personalities on the team: Jamie D'Antona from Wake Forest, Tim Stauffer from University of Richmond, Tom Pauly from Princeton, to name a few, and hear their thoughts on baseball, the stresses of being a college athlete, their hopes & dreams as they grow over this summer. We also get a look inside the communities that host the players every summer and how the Cape Cod League has shaped the residents. And at the end Collins tells us where the players end up at the conclusion of the next school year...if they were drafted by MLB or not.
You won't be able to put this book down & chances are you'll want to reread it at the start of every summer.
You won't be able to put this book down & chances are you'll want to reread it at the start of every summer.
