One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season
Author: Ballard, Chris
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.0
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
71485
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
254
Points per Page
0.047244
Description
When hippie, dreamer, and intellectual Lynn Sweet arrived in Macon, IL, in 1966, he became the reluctant coach of the high-school baseball team, leading the Macon Ironmen through an improbable season to the state final. The plot contains profanity.