One Season in the Sun

by Joe Schuster

These are the tales of one-season wonders. The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names—players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport for good. Still, for an afternoon, a week, or a couple of months, these men stood on the field alongside the best players in The Show. Here are gripping stories of their brief moments in the sun. Praise for Joe Schuster's The Might Have "Surely destined to join the ranks of transcendent baseball novels." ?Richard Russo

The Gemma Open Door Series features storytelling by best-selling authors and important voices for new readers. A story doesn't have to be big to change ‎our world‎.‎ ‎

Genres: Sports

100 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Chris Schaffer · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a tiny book which couldn’t even function as a paper weight. But as a longtime lifelong baseball fan since I was 5, and card collector, stat analyzer, a real baseball junkie, I was always fascinated by the fact that in baseball you have these players who get to the highest level of the sport, and then, however the circumstances played out, end up with 8 at bats for their career, have a 4 year career with 11 rbis, pitch 14 total innings, and then not play again. This tiny book sheds light on some of these occurrences.

[Maggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not for me. It felt like a list of baseball stats rather than stories.

[Norman Styers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pleasant.

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

An adult literacy reader about...lack of success. Odd matchup of ideas. Also, considering the intent of the book, a bit more attention could have been given to spelling players' names correctly.