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The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History by Jacob Kornhauser 9781538175453

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"This is one of the very best baseball books in years." Booklist, Starred Review


Reaching the major leagues is a pipe dream for most young baseball players in America. Very few ever get to live it out. A select number of those players face the elation and frustration of getting to play in just one major league game.

The Cup of Coffee Club: 11 Players and Their Brush with Baseball History tells the unique stories of eleven of these players. It details their struggles to reach the major leagues, their one moment in the limelight, and their struggles to get back. They include a former Major League Baseball manager, the son of a Baseball Hall of Famer, and two different brothers of Hall of Famers. Exclusive interviews with each of the players provide insight into what that single seminal moment meant and how they dealt with the blow of never making another major league appearance again.

Spanning half a century of baseball, each player's journey to Major League Baseball is distinct, as is each of their responses to having played in just a single game. The Cup of Coffee Club shares their unique perspectives, providing a better understanding of just how special each major league game can be.



About the Author

Jacob Kornhauser is a sportswriter and former television producer. He has worked for ESPN, FOX Sports, and Bleacher Report.



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No matter the backstory or the ending, there's a certain magic around a ballplayer whose entire career comes down to one appearance in a big-league game, a lifetime lived in the span of just a couple hours. In this book, Jacob Kornhauser has given each of those one-game wonders a chance to have his full story told-and there's magic in that too.

-- Sean Deveney, The Sporting News

Jacob Kornhauser has written a wonderful book about one of my favorite topics: baseball players who get one day, one game in the big leagues. It made me think of my favorite movie, Field of Dreams. Enjoy.

-- Tim Kurkjian, ESPN's Baseball Tonight

It will shed light to fans in a new way.

-- Mark Appel, former No. 1 overall MLB draft pick

The title is inspired, and its human interest stories are well told. For all of us who think "Damn Yankees" is for us-we who would sell our souls to the devil in exchange for one big league season-no, one at bat-this book rings true.

-- George F. Will, best-selling author and writer for the Washington Post

Kornhauser details the journeys of 11 players who made the majors for a single game. Some never made it back due to injury; for others, it was lack of talent. Circumstances often drive the shortness of a career: perhaps the role a team envisioned for a player is usurped when someone playing the same position develops more quickly. Or maybe the front-office staff who believed in a player's potential was fired en masse. The rigors of minor-league life-two steps up the hierarchy, then one back-also drive players to abandon the dream and get on with life. Kornhauser examines all of these situations in his moving profiles of these 11 one-game wonders. This is one of the very best baseball books in years. Readers will put faces and names to what they knew on a subliminal level: major-league baseball is really, really hard, and a lot of fine young players get left behind.

* Booklist, Starred Review *

The book is a fascinating concept. . . . Kornhauser has done his homework here, and then some. His sketches are illuminating, profound, and heartbreaking. You'll love each and every one of them, but for very different reasons. You'll just have to take a break here and there to recover before reaching the end.

* NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture *



Book Information
ISBN 9781538175453
Author Jacob Kornhauser
Format Paperback
Page Count 212
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 290g
Dimensions(mm) 224mm * 154mm * 12mm

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