Former Belvidere High School instructor and Coach Dr. Doug Feldman has released another book. The following is an excerpt from the introduction of the book. BooneCountySports.com highly recommends Dr. Feldman's books. If you are a sports enthusiast you will definitely want to add this book to your collection.

"In writing books about baseball seasons, I have always tried
to weave the happenstances of sport into the milieu of society
at the given time. Baseball, as much as any other American institution,
places our lives in an historical context that enriches
our existence and serves to remind us that our lives are divided
into increments of time. I pull the stories for the following pages
from the events of 1969, a year for which anyone old enough
to remember can recall his or her circumstances in one of the
most uncertain epochs in the nation’s history. Like most annual
occasions, the arrival of the baseball playoffs, the Super Bowl, or
New Year’s Eve prompts us to remember the same event from the
previous year and to mark the progress in our lives over the past
365 days. For while we sometimes can’t remember the names of
all our relatives, we can certainly remember where we were when
Vinatieri made the kick or when Bartman and Alou collided."
Introduction xv
Copyrighted Material Miracle Collapse
By Doug Feldmann
University of Nebraska Press
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