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Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball Paperback – May 12, 2008

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In Senior Year, Dan Shaughnessy focuses his acclaimed sports writing talents on his son Sam's senior year of high school, a turning point in any young life and certainly in the relationship between father and son. Using that experience, Shaughnessy circles back to his own boyhood and calls on the many sports greats he's known over the years -- Ted Williams, Roger Clemens, Larry Bird -- to capture that uniquely American rite of passage that is sports.

Growing up, Dan Shaughnessy was so baseball-obsessed that he played games by himself and didn?ft even let himself win. His son, Sam Shaughnessy, came by his own love of sports naturally and was a natural hitter who quickly ascended the ranks of youth sports. Now nicknamed the 3-2 Kid for his astonishing ability to hover between success and failure in everything he does, Sam is finally a senior, and it's all on the line: what college to attend; how to keep his grades up and his head down until graduation; and whether his final high school baseball season, which features foul weather, a hitting slump, and a surprising clash with a longtime coach, will end in disappointment or triumph.

All along the way, Dad is there, chronicling that universal experience of putting your child out on the field -- and in the world -- and hoping for the best. With gleaming insight, wicked humor, and, at times, the searching soul of an unsure father, Shaughnessy illuminates how sports connect generations and how they help us grow up -- and let go.
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  5. ISBN-10
    0547053827
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Dan Shaughnessy is an award-winning columnist for the Boston Globe and the author of several sports books, including The Curse of the Bambino, a best-selling classic. Seven times Shaughnessy has been voted one of America’s top ten sports columnists by Associated Press Sports Editors and named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year. He has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, Nightline, NPR, Imus in the Morning, ESPN, HBO, and many others. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; Reprint edition (May 12, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0547053827
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0547053820
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.25 inches
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Jeanna Wiederstein
5.0 out of 5 stars If you have a baseball player, must read!
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Touches my heart as our son is off to college with a baseball scholarship in the spring.
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Deborah L. Maw
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H. Nolan
3.0 out of 5 stars A hairy tale
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2007
Hark! I said to myself as I opened the cover of this tome. And hark I did. Because the pages of my copy seemed to be covered with a fine layer of curly hair. The follicles made reading the volume rather more of a challenge, but in the end the rollicking tale of triumph motivated me to shave each page with my whalebone-handled straight razor so that I could peruse it without its hairy chapeau. Bravo, good chap Shaughnessy! Something about basketball, or whatever!
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K. O. Brien
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Baseball Book
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2007
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My husband and I are parents of 2 boys in baseball, and one that graduated from high school this year. Maybe it was the similarity of the timeline, but the book perfectly captured experiences and feelings of parents, Mother & Father, and a son in baseball. Wonderful book.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2012
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I did not read it. My husband went to the library so many times to check it out, and then renew it, I figured he really needed his own copy. Of course, it must be good!
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T. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars For Every Baseball Parent
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2007
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If your son or daughter has aspirations of playing sports in H.S. and beyond, this is a good book to read. It's entertaining and insightful. I have purchased it for friends. Enjoy it and their H.S. years.
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J. Luiz
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful tale of fatherhood through the prism of sports
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2007
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, as I have other Shaugnhessy books, including Reversing the Curse. I've been reading his columns since he covered the Celtics as a beat writer many years ago, and I was suprised to discover wisecracking Dan could offer such moving insights on how to handle a son without being overly involved or intrusive. He very successfully combines tales of his own high school career with that of his son, and it really does transcend that personal story by shining a very keen light on the differences and similarities between teenage-hood today vs. thirty years ago. I know some have written that the son seems callous and spoiled, but to me he just seems like a very typical, contemporary teenager, although it is impressive how close this boy was to his family -- even if it takes him a while to reveal his innermost fears. The Shaugnhessy-bashers will hate this, but it's clear throughout just how tightknit the family is. Dan has very strong opinions about parents' need to be back off from too much involvement in their children's lives, while also forcing them to assume adult-like responsibilities, in this case, to their team and their teammates. I found it all very refreshing and inspiring. There's also a very moving portrait of a community here -- not just among the parents of the son's baseball team, but also the neighbors in their section of Newton. In a world where everyone is supposed to be isolated from their neighbor, it was very encouraging to see a group of people who rally to support each other in good times and bad. My only complaints are two trivial ones -- after taking glee in making fun of Alanis Morissette for not knowing the difference between irony and coincidence, I would have expected this Globe writer and Holy Cross grad (my alma mater, too) to know that he shouldn't write -- three times no less -- about his son feeling "badly" when the context had nothing to do with Sam losing sensation in his fingertips. And Dan, it's "en masse" not "en mass." Dan also needs to let go of his obsession with ripping Curt Schilling every chance he gets -- as he once again calls him a blowhard here. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and hope Dan continues to broaden his writing horizon because I look forward to whatever topic he may decide to tackle next. (I do wonder, though, what price young Sam may have to pay as he walks around the BC campus this year, with anyone who's willing to read the book being able to get such an intimate portrait of his life.)
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