HEART & HUSTLE An Unlikely Journey from Little Leaguer to Big Leaguer, (signed copy)

FRANK CATALANOTTO

ISBN 10: 0985067306 / ISBN 13: 9780985067304

Published by Bantry Bay Media, Chicago, 2012

About this Item

Laminated pictorial boards with matching image on unclipped photocovered jacket; Book is clean sound & unmarked except for author's signature and inscription on ffep; Jacket is free of chips/tears, light edgewear; 284 pages with colour photos centre section, b/w photos throughout; the author recounts his childhood and 19 year baseball career, fourteen of those in the Major Leagues.

Seller Inventory # PARA8155

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HEART & HUSTLE An Unlikely Journey from Little Leaguer to Big Leaguer, (signed copy)
• Publisher: Bantry Bay Media, Chicago
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0985067306
• ISBN 13: 9780985067304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Rob Cuni; Photographer; Anthony Paolillo; Jacket Design
• Edition: First
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sports and Games

About this title

Synopsis

Join Frank Catalanotto on his unlikely journey from Little Leaguer to Big Leaguer. Heart & Hustle is a combination memoir and instruction guide for every player in any sport who has felt the sting of being overlooked or told they weren't good enough. It's a guide for players of all ages with stories of how Frank's perseverance, drive and desire--his heart and hustle--led him to a fourteen-year career in the big leagues. With a foreword by MLB All-Star Michael Young and back cover blurbs by Bob Costas, Tom Verducci and Carlos Delgado, Heart & Hustle also contains 16 pages of full color photos tracing Frank's journey to the big leagues. Heart & Hustle is also an instruction guide for parents of young athletes with tips on how to be supportive and encouraging, just as Frank's parents, Frank and Sharon were. The strong support of his parents, brother and sister and later his wife and daughters, played a huge role in Frank's success.

About the Author

After retiring from baseball in 2010, Frank Catalanotto returned home to Long Island where he lives with his wife Barbara and four daughters. As you'd expect after reading how important his family was to his success in life and baseball, Frank lives near his parents, Frank and Sharon, his sister Christa and her family and his brother Michael and his family. Frank's devotion to proper and safe nutrition during his career led him to start Proven4, which manufactures supplements and vitamins for athletes and non-athletes. When their first child was born with a discoloration of her facial skin, a vascular birthmark called a hemangioma, Barbara and Frank sought answers, which led them to the Vascular Birthmark Foundation. Because of the wonderful support and information they received through the VBF, they started The Frank Catalanotto Foundation to help raise money to fund education for doctors about treating such birthmarks and provide resources for other parents who don't know where to turn when their children are born with birthmarks.