Always an Angel Playing the Game with Fire and Faith

by Salmon, Tim; Goldman, Rob; Maddon, Joe

• ISBN13: 9781600783432
• ISBN10: 1600783430
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Triumph Books

Summary

With those prophetic words, Angels coach Joe Maddon christened the batch of eager rookies gathered on the first day of the Angels' Instructional League camp in Mesa, Arizona, in 1989. Among them was an outfielder from Grand Canyon College named Tim Salmon. He and team-mates Troy Percival and Garret Anderson would take Maddon's words to heart and lead the Angels to the team's coveted first World Series championship.

Author Biography

Tim Salmon is a former professional baseball player who was one of the American League’s most consistent performers and who helped guide the Angels to their first world championship in 2002. He is the founder of the Tim Salmon Foundation, which supports Orange County charities assisting children in need. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Rob Goldman was a team batboy and visiting clubhouse attendant for the Angels in the 1970s. He played baseball at Mendocino College and graduated with a BA in theatre arts from Sonoma State. He has acted in several films, including Dances with Wolves, JFK, and Overboard, and is the author of Once They Were Angels: A History of the Team, hailed as the “best sports history in years” by the New York Daily News and considered one of the definitive books on the Angels.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Growing Up in the Faith	p. 1
Realizing the Professional Dream	p. 15
Working Up the Ladder	p. 33
Building a Foundation	p. 47
Friends and Adversaries	p. 69
Swimming Upstream	p. 95
Final Pieces of the Puzzle	p. 115
World Series Journal	p. 135
Heavenly Endings	p. 179
Epilogue	p. 209
Acknowledgments	p. 211
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