Final Post, The Last Best League

Well, this has been a very interesting and exciting end to the book. The Catham A’s, having won their way into the playoffs, are now facing their rival the Brewster Whitecaps. The game was an amazing one, the game went into the tenth inning when the Whitecaps hit a three run blast to put Brewster out 5-2. The A’s slumped on the bench as if they had already lost but the veteran coach, John Schiffner, got the squad up and at ‘em. Schiffner had been in many situations in his life but had never been in one quite like this. Schiffner was a coach that was used to losing, but this specific ball team had something that no other team had, togetherness. They had gone through the tough times and the glorious times as a squad, not individually. Schiffner believed in his squad and in the bottom of the tenth pulled through will small ball and smart strategies. In front of the biggest crowd in Catham Veterans Field history, the Catham A’s won their first playoff game in 5 years. Schiffner was used to losing his players to team USA during the season and abandoning the A’s, but this team had nowhere to go but stay here and win. This book was spectacular and gave me great insight on how the Cape Cod League works. This book ends with commentary on where the players went after the A’s. Most of the players either got drafted and went straight into the majors of went to the AAA teams. A very few of them went on to live successful lives as working citizens, jobs that include doctors, lawyers, architects, entrepreneurs, and so on. I highly recommend this book to any baseball lover who has dreams of making it to the big show, or for that matter anywhere that will get you to the big show.