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The last natural : Bryce Harper's big gamble in Sin City and the greatest amateur season ever
- Title
- The last natural : Bryce Harper's big gamble in Sin City and the greatest amateur season ever / Rob Miech.
- Author
- Miech, Rob.
- Publication
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- 356 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "At his young age, Harper already had dominated high school competition like Mickey Mantle on the playground and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which dubbed him the "most exciting prodigy since LeBron James." Seeking greater tests as a hitter, the precocious star got his GED after his sophomore year and enrolled at the College of Southern Nevada, where he would face future pro pitchers in a difficult wooden-bat league. Sportswriter Rob Miech was "embedded" with the team--in the dugout and locker room and on team buses and in motel rooms--to provide a warts-and-all account of a boy among men playing like a man among boys. Amid fascinating personal stories including the dynamics between a veteran coach and Harper's overprotective father, the jealousies of teammates and opponents, and the sudden descent of press armies on a tiny college field, the author chronicles a season-long experiment that culmaintes in Harper leading the Coyotes to the Junior College World Series and signing a $9.9 million contract negotiated by notorious agent Scott Boras"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-356).
- Call Number
- JFE 14-8342
- ISBN
- 9781250001450
- 1250001455
- LCCN
- 2012009369
- OCLC
- 2012009369
- Author
- Miech, Rob.
- Title
- The last natural : Bryce Harper's big gamble in Sin City and the greatest amateur season ever / Rob Miech.
- Imprint
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-356).
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-8342