When Life Grabs You by the Baseballs (eBook)

Finding Happiness in Life's Changeups

Jon Peters (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
264 Seiten
Jon Peters (Verlag)
978-1-946114-84-6 (ISBN)

Infos

When dreams collapse . . .Jon Peters had it all: record-breaking high school baseball pitcher, on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a beautiful girlfriend.He was going to play professional baseball. He was going to have everything he'd ever wanted.Until a shoulder injury and four surgeries changed his life.With dreams shattered, Jon struggled to find value and happiness. After years searching vainly to make sense of it all, alcohol, a suicide attempt, deep-seated anger, and a failed marriage made him feel even more desperate.When new dreams come . . .In the worst place of his life, he reached out and found help and hope. Trading in his old dreams for beautiful new ones birthed out of the ashes of his past, he's at last found value, fulfillment, and purpose.Now in When Life Grabs You by the Baseballs, Jon shares the secrets he's learned to living a happy life. His message is universal: no matter what dreams you've lost or what demons you're battling, you too can find hope, redemption, and joy.

Inhalt

 Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Foreword by John Smoltz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii

Chapter 1 On Top of the World? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2 Born to Play Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 3 My Baseball Career Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Chapter 4 “I Want to Quit!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Chapter 5 First Taste of Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 6 Coach Driggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Chapter 7 The Church of Baseball, a Good Buddy,

and a Beautiful Girlfriend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Chapter 8 Trouble Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Chapter 9 Breaking the Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Chapter 10 Not Quite the National Record . . . . . . . . . . . .  96

Chapter 11 Devastating News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Chapter 12 Second Chances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chapter 13 Finally Fitting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Chapter 14 More Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Chapter 15 Coming to Grips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157

Chapter 16 Now What Do I Do? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165

Chapter 17 Trouble in Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Chapter 18 Another Letdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Chapter 19 Rock Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

Chapter 20 An Awful Relapse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .203

Chapter 21 Meeting God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  210

Chapter 22 A New Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  217

Author’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Discussion Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .229

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2018
• Co-Autor: Ginger Kolbaba
• Vorwort: John Smoltz
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: alcoholism • Author Academy Elite • Baseball • baseball pitcher • baseball player • Blue Bell Ice Cream • Bo Eason • Brenham • Christian • Christianity Today • Cy Young • Divorce • espn • Faith • fitting in • Focus on Family • God • Grace • Happiness • Hope • John Smoltz • Jon Peters • Joy • Kary Oberbrunner • Larry Dierker • Life • Melanie Shankle • Mike Lindstrom • National Baseball Hall of Fame • nolan ryan • not good enough • Purpose • Record Holder • Redemption • rock bottom • Sports Illustrated cover • Suicide • Value • worthless
• ISBN-10: 1-946114-84-7 / 1946114847
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946114-84-6 / 9781946114846