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A Major League Baseball player tells the story of his father, a poor Puerto Rican factory worker who, against all odds, raised one of the greatest baseball dynasties of all time: three sons who have each earned two World Series rings.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, Baseball, Fathers, Fathers and sons, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General, nyt:sports=2015-06-07, New York Times bestseller, Puerto rico, biography, Baseball playersPeople
Bengie Molina (1974-), Benjamin MolinaPlaces
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Molina: la historia del padre que crió una improbable dinastía del béisbol
2015, Simon & Schuster
in Spanish
- Primera edición de Simon & Schuster en tapa dura.
1501103083 9781501103087
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Molina: the story of the father who raised an unlikely baseball dynasty
2015, Simon & Schuster
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- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
1451641044 9781451641042
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"The inspiring true story of the poor Puerto Rican factory worker, Benjamin Molina Santana, who against all odds raised the greatest baseball dynasty of all time: Molina's three sons--Bengie, Jose, and Yadier--have each earned two World Series rings, which is unprecedented in the sport, and his story is told by one of them, Bengie. A baseball rules book. A tape measure. A lottery ticket. These were in the pocket of Bengie Molina'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 Molina'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 brothers--Jose and six-time All-Star Yadier--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 father'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 father's own failed dream of baseball glory--only to discover it had not been his father'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 father's life, comes to understand his own"--
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