Stealing Home, Ron Seybold
Stealing Home, Ron Seybold
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Stealing Home
A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game

Author: Ron Seybold

Narrator: Ron Seybold

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2019

Synopsis

"Tenderly poignant, wise and affecting." KirkusIn an epic road trip with his Little League son, a divorced dad's eight-ballpark journey tries to rescue his fatherhood--and learn how his dad's suicide might not doom him to repeat a father's mistakes. The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing the other to accomplish nothing. In 150 years of baseball, there have only been 23. Perfect is nearly impossible. As a divorced dad, Ron was trying to redeem his fatherhood with a road trip with his son. Their odyssey of crossing eight states in a rented convertible was supposed to salvage Ron's life as an unsure father. Custody fatherhood demoted him to the second team -- he was certain of that. One sign of salvation came unbidden in an unscheduled tenth ballgame.The adventures and revelations of the road lead to a deeper reckoning of how a father could fail enough at fatherhood to take his own life. Thousands of miles and dozens of innings deliver a discovery: a drive toward perfect fatherhood has a destination that cannot be found on any map."Authentic, emotional, and brave, this is a timeless journey of the universal struggle to rise above the past. Stealing Home is a beautiful testament to the power of a father's love." - Claire Ashby, New York Times best-selling author of When You Make It Home"Part baseball, part fatherhood, and all boyhood, Stealing Home plays out the mystery of love and family. The magic lies in the storytelling that travels the road to something perfect." - Donna Johnson, author of Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on July 24, 2020

Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje: I read a lot of memoirs, and "Stealing Home" ranks up there with some of the best. In telling his tale of his summer of redemption -- when he uses trips to baseball games as an avenue to reconnect with son Nicky while reconciling the turbulent relationship he had with his ow......more

Goodreads review by Susan on June 18, 2019

No memoir has delighted me more than Ron Seybold’s new release, Stealing Home. One of my favorite lines is, “Limits were for dads who weren’t on epic road trips.” And what a road trip it was! Ron and his little leaguer son, Nicky, take a road trip of a lifetime in a T-topped Pontiac Sunbird in the......more

Goodreads review by Earnest on January 04, 2020

Stealing Home is a story about a man, his son, a road trip, baseball and a historic game. The author is determined to have the most memorable vacation with his son. Ron Seybold is divorced, and sees his son on established weekends and vacation times. In spite of this, he is determined to be the fath......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 01, 2019

From the first page, I had so many questions that I wanted answered. All was revealed with page turning drama. There are many things I could relate to, like experiencing anxiety and perfectionism. Then there are life experiences, like being the survivor of suicide loss, that I could only imagine abo......more

Goodreads review by Leesa on May 30, 2019

I really loved this book about boys and dads My three boys played on a Little League field just like the one that Ron’s son Nicky played on. But in truth, this book is so much more than a baseball story. It's about a father's redemption—a father-son story of magic, misguided perfection and anxious dr......more

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