Shortstop: Where Grace and Power Collide!

This novel is about our National Past Time! Shortstop: Where Grace and Power Collide! is about the maturation of a young baseball player! Frank Lido, Jr. The story is convinced at the beginning of the work in that he wants to get better but doesn't really know what that means!

After arriving at the University of Texas at Austin, he wants to put his immature high school academic performance behind him! His lack of self esteem in many parts of his academic life are evident at the beginning of the story! Fortunately, he meets Champions for Life when he hits campus! His teammates and coaches help him understand that he is a viable person besides baseball.

Lido becomes a leader and eventually a major leaguer! You'll have to guess the team but it will be well worth it in the end. The story is available on Amazon, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes and Noble and You Tube, Search: Mike Maloni Writing this novel as well as his first novel Defenseman: A Hockey Player's Story, showed the author's healthy attitude toward fighting a terrible disease, mental illness! There is a cost to living no matter if we are healthy or not but the cost with mental illness shows people that in this day and age it can be at least fought with your heart in a war of attrition! There are no mentally ill people with this novel and sometimes I get asked why? Simply put because when you get to the level of college, you are functioning pretty well. Therefore you see life, at least in spurts as "regular people" with regular people's opportunities and college is full of them good and bad. The baseball story is not a sophomoric chase through the grass and the bedroom! There's a definite purpose to these young people's lives interspersed with a great deal of fun! Being young and playing a game can be a very illustrious assignment in life, few know it and more don't enjoy it! In the end, that is what this story is about, camaraderie and winning or learning to win as part of a team. Mike Maloni