Description: Weaving the lessons of being a good father through anecdotes and allegories of baseball, this title draws draws on the game's richness of meaning, history, and tradition to delight and guide fathers and would-be fathers on the path to effective fatherhood.
Brief description: Jack Petrash has been a teacher for over 30 years, much of that time at the Washington Waldorf School in Maryland where he has taken three classes of children from grade one through grade eight. In addition to teaching, he is the director of the Nova Institute, dedicated to working with parents and teachers to promote a deeper understanding of children.
Review Quotes: "I have so many memories throughout my life that have been provided through baseball, but the strongest ones are those provided by my father. Almost all of the life lessons that my brothers, sister and I learned from dad were related to us through baseball. Jack Petrash seems to have captured that deep connection between fathers, their children, and baseball in Covering Home." - Cal Ripken, Jr