Christopher Gallo

Unlikely Champions: a Miracle in Williamsport Christopher Gallo

Publisher Marketing: Unlikely Champions: A Miracle in Williamsport celebrates the 25th anniversary of the most stunning upset in the history of the Little League World Series, following the players, now successful adults, leaders, and family men, as they tell their inspirational stories and relate the life lessons they learned. Trumbull National Little League's unlikely 5-2 victory over Taiwan in the 1989 Little League World Series evokes memories of a Little League miracle. Fifteen ordinary 12-year-old boys accomplished something extraordinary, winning the hearts of sports fans across America in the process, stunning the mighty Taiwanese. As the Trumbull kids celebrated on the field, the American-flag-waving crowd of 40,000 chanted in earnest - "USA! USA!" No one gave these Little Leaguers from a small town in Connecticut a chance to win. If your Little League son or daughter aspires to play on Williamsport's Little League Field of Dreams for a world championship, then you must read what these Unlikely Champions have to say to your ballplayer achieving those dreams. We pass along the legacy of the game of baseball by telling stories, from fathers to sons and daughters, grandfathers to grandsons and granddaughters, one generation of fans to the next. It's why every game broadcast features a play-by-play announcer for the action and a "color commentator," to explain the game and share stories about it. The late A. Bartlett Giamatti often claimed that "Baseball stories were at the heart of the appeal of our game. The history of baseball is an oral one." This is an American baseball story, finally...and finely told. Foreword by Chris Berman Contributor Bio:  Poston, Chris Ed Grant started teaching Subconscious Golf concepts at seminars and golf schools around the country in the 1970s. Grant's work has helped dozens of top-level PGA Tour players from the 1970s to today, and his mental game techniques have been adapted and utilized by some of the game's most prominent instructors, including Jim Flick, Jim McLean, Bob Toski and Dave Stockton. By combining research from diverse fields in performance golf psychology, Ed has created a program based on the principle that golf is as much a mental game as a skills game. Researching and understanding how the brain works and affects physiology, muscle tension, thought patterns and ultimately performance on the golf course is at the core of Subconscious Golf. Grant is based in Scottsdale, AZ. For more information, visit subconsciousgolf.com Matthew Rudy is the author or co-author of 15 golf instruction books, including collaborations with Dave Stockton, Stan Utley, Johnny Miller and Hank Haney. He is a senior writer at Golf Digest, where he has produced more than 20 cover stories since 1999 with players and teachers like Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson, Haney and Butch Harmon. He lives in Bridgeport, CT. For more information, visit matthewrudy.net.