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COMING SOON!
You Might Need a Jacket
By Earl Austin
Jr.
Hilarious Stories of Wacky Sports
Parents
Behind every
successful young athlete, there is a highly-motivated parent
obsessed with the idea of their son or daughter becoming a big
sports star.
Earl Austin
Jr.’s latest book, You Might Need a Jacket: Hilarious Stories
of Wacky Sports Parents, is dedicated to those mothers and
fathers and other loved ones who go above and beyond the call of
duty to ensure their children’s success in the athletic arena.
Way, way beyond.
In 22 years of
covering amateur sports in the St. Louis area, Earl has virtually
seen it all on the playing fields and in the bleachers and now he
is sharing some of those funny stories with you in his new
publication. Be ready to laugh out loud.
This delightful
100+ page book contains nearly 200 stories and little anecdotes
that chronicle the activities of “Strait-Jacket Parents,” which is
the term created to describe these overzealous sports parental
units. Some of these stories may be hard to believe, but they are
all true. They range from the funny and cute to the strange and
truly bizarre. Most of them are of the humorous nature, but others
take on a more ominous tone which have led to serious trouble for
the overbearing parent.
Strait-Jacket parents are present all over the world and they
represent all all races, social classes and nationalities. They
come from all walks of life, yet they all have one thing in
common. They want their children to be the best and they will do
just about anything to make that happen. You Might Need a
Jacket provides a small dose of what happens when the parents’
good intentions can sometimes get the best of them. The foreward
to the book has been written by St. Louis radio and television
personality Frank Cusumano, who has been a youth sports coach for
many years in town.
Earl has been
able to capture the spirit of overzealous parents with such
humorous stories as:
*The proud
mother who spent thousands of dollars to have bobblehead dolls
made in her daughter’s likeness when she was a high school
basketball player.
*The crazy
father who knocked himself unconscious, banging his head against
the door trying to get inside the referees room for a post-game
confrontation after a youth hockey game.
*The nervous
mother who would always wet her pants whenever her son trotted on
to the football field to attempt a field goal.
*The
out-of-control dad who ended up being arrested, tasered and taken
away in handcuffs from his eight-year old son’s football game.
Earl’s stories
are not just relegated to just parents. Siblings, aunts, uncles,
husbands and wives are also prone to strait-jacket bahavior and
Earl has captured many of these wild stories and much more in this
look inside the world of the “strait-jacket parent.”
The book is
scheduled for release in early August. It is published by
Prioritybooks Publications.
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