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A Year of Playing Catch audiobook

  • By: Ethan D. Bryan
  • Length: 5 hours 11 minutes
  • Publisher: Zondervan
  • Publish date: September 08, 2020
  • Language: English
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A Year of Playing Catch Audiobook Summary

Journey with prolific author and avid baseball fan Ethan Bryan on an exciting quest to play catch every day for a year, and discover the lessons he learned about the sacredness of play, finding connections, and being fully present to the human experience. A Casey Award finalist!

Ethan Bryan played and wrote about baseball for years. Then his daughters challenged him to set out on a yearlong experiment: to play catch with someone every day. This experience led him across 10 states and 12,000 miles on a quest both quixotic and inspiring.

Taking you from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to the home of the Daytona Tortugas in Florida, Bryan played ball and swapped stories with public school teachers, veterans, journalists, nurses, musicians, entertainers, entrepreneurs, athletes from every level–amateur to pro–and members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Plus, he visited famous destinations such as the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Miracle League fields, and the original “Field of Dreams” in Iowa.

But throughout the book, Bryan reveals it’s about much more than who he played catch with: it’s what he learned from their vastly different stories. Lessons include:

  • How play can reignite a fire within you and transform your life
  • How to find joy in the simple things
  • How one life can impact a whole community
  • . . . and more.

 

For baseball fans and everyone who loves a good story, A Year of Playing Catch is an inspiring journey about finding joy in the simple things, and the power of play to transform our lives.

 

A complete list of everyone who played catch with Bryan and his daughter’s illustrated version of one of the stories are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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About the Author(s) of A Year of Playing Catch

Ethan D. Bryan is the author of A Year of Playing Catch

A Year of Playing Catch Full Details

Length 5 hours 11 minutes
Author Ethan D. Bryan
Publisher Zondervan
Release date September 08, 2020
ISBN 9780310360346

Subjects

The publisher of the A Year of Playing Catch is Zondervan. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Religion, Inspirational

Additional info

The publisher of the A Year of Playing Catch is Zondervan. The imprint is Zondervan. It is supplied by Zondervan. The ISBN-13 is 9780310360346.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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