When You Can't Come Back: A Story of Courage and Grace

by Dave Dravecky, Jan Dravecky, Ken Gire

Book Overview

The former all-star pitcher chronicles his painful struggle with cancer, his heroic return to baseball, and the eventual loss of his arm to the disease. 200,000 first printing. $85,000 ad/promo. Tour. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310585600
• ISBN13: 9780310585602
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

When You Can't Come Back -- The Same

This is a terrific book written with honesty and courage and filled with wisdom and encouragement. However, the title is a bit misleading because Dave and Jan do comeback: better and stronger than ever. I highly recommend this enjoyable and fast read.

I am so glad my english teacher chose this book to read!

This is a great book. I am a sophmore in high school and I am so glad the english department chose to put this on the summer reading list. It shows that the all-amercian family isn't perfect and how they coped with all of the hurdles that were put in front of them. They should be commanded on their ability to cope with any problem that arises. Their kids should be recognized also because they had to see Mr Fix-It(aka known to families as Dad) have something that couldn't be fixed. This is a great book and I recommend it to anyone who needs a little diversion from their problems, because there'll always be someone who has it worse off than you do.