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    The Second Chance
    The Second Chance
    The Second Chance
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    The Second Chance

    By Joseph DiMari

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    A professional baseball coach, disillusioned and discouraged, receives new hope in an unexpected form.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph DiMari
    Release dateDec 7, 2012
    ISBN9781301174010
    The Second Chance
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    Joseph DiMari

    As a special education teacher, vocational evaluator, and later as a GED instructor, the author gained years of practical writing experience. Between careers, he fulfilled a long-held dream of many who have a love of reading and books, by opening a used bookstore in Omaha, Nebraska. Retired now from the formal job, he still occasionally produces works of fiction and non-fiction, as he has for most of his life...but fishes regularly.

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      The Second Chance - Joseph DiMari

      The Second Chance

      By Joseph DiMari

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Joseph DiMari

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      Clausen could sense an uneasiness as Jelly, towel over his shoulder, hung up the phone after the muffled conversation and walked slowly over to him, his eyes never leaving the wet tiled floor, the left hand stuffed into his wrinkled pants in too casual a fashion. Jelly was not your hardest person to read when it came to emotions. And yet, Clausen couldn’t help a momentary smirk.

      Jell, what’s up?

      The trainer studied a particularly large daddy long legs making its way up the dull green wall. Hansen wants to see ya. They told me to tell ya.

      Clausen’s insides tightened as he analyzed the trainer’s expression, the shaky voice, the resigned tone. Was this it? All over? The final meeting with the owner, whose voice still echoed less than three years before, "I have complete confidence in Coach Clausen. Let there be no mistake. He is the leader of the Louisiana Bayous and will remain coach of this baseball team for as long as

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