Me and E: A Baseball Odyssey - Softcover

"Me and E: A Baseball Odyssey is a reflection on parenting a prodigy, told through the author's eyes as he witnessed and participated in the successes and failures of his son playing baseball and growing up in Central Florida. It deals with the changing world of competitive youth sports, over-involved parents, fanatical coaches, the hypocrisies inherent in high school athletics, the college recruiting process and how we teach our kids to grow up and become decent human beings - despite ourselves. It’s a book about flawed parenting, about living vicariously through a gifted child and learning, finally, that being a good father is as much about letting go as it is about being there. Call it Moneyball meets Everything I Know I Learned in Kindergarten.

David Bornstein began his writing career in 2nd grade as the editor of his elementary school newspaper. He has written short stories and feature articles that have appeared in The Florida Magazine, The Detroit Free Press, The Ann Arbor Observer, and wrote a weekly column for the Heritage Jewish News for more than a decade. He won the Florida Screenwriter's Competition, and has received numerous awards as an advertising copywriter and producer. David and his wife Patricia live in Winter Park, Florida. They have three children: Ethan, Jerica, and Gabriel, and one dog named Khaleesi. While David has never aspired to greatness in any baseball capacity, he has lived, breathed, and suffered through it for nearly 20 years - almost as long as he has been a parent.