Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely

Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty
- beautiful memoir about his father
New York Times Bestseller

â€œItâ€™s this yearâ€™s baseball book most likely to be made into a terrific movie.â€ â€”The Chicago Tribune

â€œAffecting...A simply told, deeply moving story, quite unlike the usual baseball book.â€ â€”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 serve as thematic guideposts 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€”Jose and six-time All-Star Yadierâ€”became famous catchers in the Major Leagues and have six 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.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber illustrations
ReleaseDate 2015-05-12
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884469377190
EANs 9781451641042

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2015-05-12
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884469377190
EANs	9781451641042

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

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