Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely

Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty

The New York Times bestseller about Major League Baseballâ€™s Molina brothers and how they became Gold Glove, World Seriesâ€“winning catchers: â€œA simply told, deeply moving story, quite unlike the usual baseball bookâ€ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

A baseball rules book. A tape measure. A lottery ticket. These were in the pocket of Bengie Molinaâ€™s father when he died of a heart attack on the rutted Little League field in his Puerto Rican barrio. The items are powerful symbols in Molinaâ€™s beautiful memoir about his father, who through baseball taught his three sons about loyalty, humility, courage, and the true meaning of success.

Bengie and his two brothersâ€”JosÃ© and six-time All-Star Yadierâ€”became famous catchers in the Major Leagues with World Series championships among them. Only the DiMaggio brothers can rival the Molinas as the most accomplished siblings in baseball history.

Bengie was the least likely to reach the Majors. He was too slow, too sensitive, and too small. But craving his beloved fatherâ€™s respect, Bengie weathered failure after deflating failure until one day he was hoisting a World Series trophy in a Champagne-soaked clubhouse. All along he thought he was fulfilling his fatherâ€™s own failed dream of baseball gloryâ€”only to discover it had not been his fatherâ€™s dream at all.

Written with the emotional power of sports classics such as Field of Dreams and Friday Night Lights, Molina is a love story between a formidable but flawed father and a son who, in unearthing answers about his fatherâ€™s life, comes to understand his own. â€œItâ€™s this yearâ€™s baseball book most likely to be made into a terrific movieâ€ (Chicago Tribune).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781451641059
ReleaseDate 2016-06-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451641059

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781451641059
ReleaseDate	2016-06-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451641059

Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty

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