Senior Year: A Father, a Son, and High School Baseball

As an Indianapolis Colts fan, I should not even be reading a book written by a Boston Globe writer! I personally found the book hard to sit down. With a high school senior in sports, it was easy for me to relate to his experiences. I loved Dan's passion for baseball at an early age. When we were kids, baseball was everything. If you have a senior involved in sports, you will find this book entertaining. If you are not involved in sports and do not have kids, you may not enjoy this book as well as I did.

This true account of how young Sam Shaughnessy and his father, Dan, handled the ups and downs of his senior year while pursuing a baseball scholarship is very enjoyable and a book I will read over again. Mr. Shaughnessy put together the entire senior year in pieces, detailing his son's teenage attitudes and views. The comparative looks back at Dan's high school days in the early 70s showed just how much things have progressed/regressed with a generation. I, for one, found the book to be entertaining, funny and ironic in more than one chapter! As our kids get older, begin thoughts of college and their careers, we need to enjoy it with them and provide our perspective (which they will think is pure drivel) as they make the choices which will shape their lives away from us. I'll be checking out the BC website to see how young Sam is getting along! A nice read and one which is meant to be nothing more than one family's story of a son's senior year. Excellent!

WOW. What a book. I cried from the time I opened it until I finished it a few hours later. At first, I was worried I wouldn't understand a good deal of this book- with not being a fan and all, just a Barbaro lover. But this book not only captured Barbaro in all of his essence but went on to explain in-depth about different horses and horseracing in itself. Enabling us non-horseracing people to fully understand what goes on behind the scenes. All I can say is: WOW-GREAT BOOK. I'm buying copies for all three of my sisters. Affirmed

This book was so good!In this book Liz's boyfriend Finnis pressuring Liz to have sex with him. But what Liz dosent know is that Finn is cheating on her.Her roomate Sam knows that Finn goes out with girls, sleeps with them, and then dumps them, and he knows that Finn is cheating on Liz. Does Sam get though Liz in time? Nina meets a guy and starts blowing off her studding time and blows off her classes. But can she blow off class again? Its pledge week. Chole really wants to get in the Theats. But how far will she go to get in? This was such a great book. Buy it!

Personally, I am in favor of any books about high school boys, especially ones that have them playing sports - as they tend to get all sweaty. My hands trembled with anticipation as I read this curly hair raising tale about a boy, his father and something else....I forget.....