Books
Autographed Baseball Literature by Rick Wilber & Clearwater Threshers Tickets
- Item Number
- 292
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 10 USD to rowc
- Number of Bids
- 2 - Bid History
Item Description
This collection of three autographed, baseball-themed books by Rick Wilber is the perfect gift for any lover of literature or baseball!
Collection includes: Where Garagiola Waits and Other Baseball Stories (hardcover); My Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball (softcover); and Rum Point: A Baseball Novel (softcover). All three books are signed by the author.
Package also includes four tickets to see the Clearwater Threshers take on the Fort Myers Miracle at 1:00 pm Sunday, July 24, 2011 at Bright House Field!
Rick Wilber grew up a child of The Game. During his long baseball career, Del Wilber caught for the Red Sox, Cardinals and Phillies; managed 6 minor league teams; scouted for 4 major league clubs; and served as third base coach for the Senators.
Where Garagiola Waits and Other Baseball Stories weaves the thread of the national pastime through touching and powerful tales of relationships that sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, where tragic violence ripples through two lovers' lives, where a father learns essential truths from a handicapped son, and where a middle-aged ballplayer finally comes to understand his father through the wonder of a single base hit in an amateur ballgame.
My Father's Game is an elegant biographical memoir recounting Del Wilber's life from the unique perspective of a son who grew up in major league dugouts, experienced the joys and hardships that go along with having a big-league dad, and served as his father's family caregiver as he became terminally ill. The result is a poignant look at the major leaguer's life and the emotionally exasperating ordeal of caring for a dying parent.
Set on the gulf coast of Florida and the Cayman Islands, Rum Point provides a unique blend of modern mystery thriller and baseball narrative. It tells the story of Felicity Lindsay, a small-town police officer who finds a battered murder victim on the beach. Her curiosity about the crime eventually leads Felicity and her father, the alcoholic manager of the local major-league baseball team, into a deadly confrontation with a drug cartel.
Item Special Note
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