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Coach Dave Season Two: All-Stars
Enjoyment of the game of baseball triumphs when a trailblazing young coach’s philosophy wins out over his fellow All-Star coach’s desire to win at all costs.
207 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 12, 2016
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Al Ainsworth
14 books8 followersMy stories center around three values: family, story, and legacy. Written in various genres, my clean and inspiring stories land in the following genres:
Chrisitan Fiction (under pen name A. Ainsworth):
Lonesome, Party of Six
Lonesome Reunion
Two of a Kind: Working on an Empty House
Twenty Years Gone: Lonesome in the Heart of Texas
Broken Pane
Everybody Else's Wedding
Inheritance Wasted: The Prodigal
Heritage Restored: The Father
Legacy Scorned: The Older Brother
Biography:
Playing for Overtime: The David Lee Herbert Story
Memoir:
Lines in the Gravel
Stories from the Roller Coaster
Sports Fiction (for youth baseball players, parents, and coaches):
Coach Dave Season 1
Coach Dave Season 2: All-Stars
Coach Dave Season 3: Middle School
Coach Dave Season 4: Travel Ball
Coach Dave Season 5: The Next Level
Thanks for reading!
Chrisitan Fiction (under pen name A. Ainsworth):
Lonesome, Party of Six
Lonesome Reunion
Two of a Kind: Working on an Empty House
Twenty Years Gone: Lonesome in the Heart of Texas
Broken Pane
Everybody Else's Wedding
Inheritance Wasted: The Prodigal
Heritage Restored: The Father
Legacy Scorned: The Older Brother
Biography:
Playing for Overtime: The David Lee Herbert Story
Memoir:
Lines in the Gravel
Stories from the Roller Coaster
Sports Fiction (for youth baseball players, parents, and coaches):
Coach Dave Season 1
Coach Dave Season 2: All-Stars
Coach Dave Season 3: Middle School
Coach Dave Season 4: Travel Ball
Coach Dave Season 5: The Next Level
Thanks for reading!
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July 20, 2016
Coach Dave has his hands full trying to ride herd on a team of twelve-year-old baseball players, but that's simply the least of his worries. He can manage the boys, but when it comes to the parents... And Coach Fletcher sizes up to be the biggest thundercloud in the gathering storm, as Coach Dave guides his team to win State.
Can the differences in Fletcher's and Dave's coaching styles mesh to create a formidable team that can win the championship? All this oil-and-water mix needs is a match to blow the team to pieces.
Coach Dave: Season Two All-Stars is a good book for dads to read with their sons. Especially when there's baseball in the family. Several times, strategy and sacrifice win the game, when aiming for the fences would end the game in a loss. Teamwork and sacrifice are emphasized over glory and favoritism, and these life lessons play well off the field as well.
The interaction of the boys, coaches, and Dads in this whimsical look at youth baseball make for an entertaining and thought-provoking read. The play-by-play action of the tournament gives the feel of being behind the chain links watching the game. The Point Of View for the entire story is Rob's dad, and he gives an accurate description of each game as it plays out, and the conflicts in the stands.
Content:
Violence:
G - There's no blood, and only a minor sports injury. There's some minor veiled threats from some angry dads about what should be done with a wayward coach or a blind umpire, but that kind of talk is quickly shut down. I think at one point a baseball cap might have been thrown down in anger. I can't imagine that's a common scene in baseball... :-)
Language:
G - I don't recall any curse words at all in the book. Unless you count 'dadgum', which I certainly don't.
Adult Content:
PG - There are several discussions about divorce, and a dad shows up at one game with a new girlfriend on his arm, causing an unfortunate scene in the stands. At twelve, the boys aren't thinking much about girls, so much as they are about ball.
Christian content:
Coach Dave seems to be a solid father figure, to boys from a broken home or not. God is mentioned a few times, and one of the dads is a preacher who finds it a bit difficult to attend the Sunday games. That's an issue quite a few Christian parents face periodically with youth sports, and was explored briefly. The preacher invites one of the dads to church with him, but the dad politely declines.
Final analysis:
I've been that kid that was picked last for a ball team, or the odd man out that held the fence and watched while others played. I've also been on a Corporate Team where I rode the bench the entire season, and only got to play one game, when a player was sick. So I understood the role of the Alternate well, and the pain that can go along with it. I felt that Rob handled it much better than I did, even as an adult. The life issues that came up in this book speak to many a young man faced with divorced parents, being the odd man out, or the disappointment of being the reason the team didn't win the game.
All-Stars was a well-written sequel to Coach Dave: Season One, and put you right in the game along with the boys, and the Dads living vicariously through their sons. I found it immersive, entertaining, and thought-provoking; a lighthearted dive into youth baseball with a dash of off-field lessons thrown in. Five Stars!
* I received an electronic copy for an honest review.
Can the differences in Fletcher's and Dave's coaching styles mesh to create a formidable team that can win the championship? All this oil-and-water mix needs is a match to blow the team to pieces.
Coach Dave: Season Two All-Stars is a good book for dads to read with their sons. Especially when there's baseball in the family. Several times, strategy and sacrifice win the game, when aiming for the fences would end the game in a loss. Teamwork and sacrifice are emphasized over glory and favoritism, and these life lessons play well off the field as well.
The interaction of the boys, coaches, and Dads in this whimsical look at youth baseball make for an entertaining and thought-provoking read. The play-by-play action of the tournament gives the feel of being behind the chain links watching the game. The Point Of View for the entire story is Rob's dad, and he gives an accurate description of each game as it plays out, and the conflicts in the stands.
Content:
Violence:
G - There's no blood, and only a minor sports injury. There's some minor veiled threats from some angry dads about what should be done with a wayward coach or a blind umpire, but that kind of talk is quickly shut down. I think at one point a baseball cap might have been thrown down in anger. I can't imagine that's a common scene in baseball... :-)
Language:
G - I don't recall any curse words at all in the book. Unless you count 'dadgum', which I certainly don't.
Adult Content:
PG - There are several discussions about divorce, and a dad shows up at one game with a new girlfriend on his arm, causing an unfortunate scene in the stands. At twelve, the boys aren't thinking much about girls, so much as they are about ball.
Christian content:
Coach Dave seems to be a solid father figure, to boys from a broken home or not. God is mentioned a few times, and one of the dads is a preacher who finds it a bit difficult to attend the Sunday games. That's an issue quite a few Christian parents face periodically with youth sports, and was explored briefly. The preacher invites one of the dads to church with him, but the dad politely declines.
Final analysis:
I've been that kid that was picked last for a ball team, or the odd man out that held the fence and watched while others played. I've also been on a Corporate Team where I rode the bench the entire season, and only got to play one game, when a player was sick. So I understood the role of the Alternate well, and the pain that can go along with it. I felt that Rob handled it much better than I did, even as an adult. The life issues that came up in this book speak to many a young man faced with divorced parents, being the odd man out, or the disappointment of being the reason the team didn't win the game.
All-Stars was a well-written sequel to Coach Dave: Season One, and put you right in the game along with the boys, and the Dads living vicariously through their sons. I found it immersive, entertaining, and thought-provoking; a lighthearted dive into youth baseball with a dash of off-field lessons thrown in. Five Stars!
* I received an electronic copy for an honest review.
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