Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of a City

by Joe Holley

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An inside look at the 2017 Houston Astros championship season, focusing on the epic seven-game World Series, the front office decisions that built a winning team, and the resilience of the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

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Joe Holley, politics editor for the Houston Chronicle, was a left-handed quarterback in high school and an undersized walk-on at Abilene Christian College in the mid-1960s. A longtime journalist, he has been an award-winning editorial page editor and columnist for newspapers in-San Diego and San Antonio, editor of the-Texas Observer, frequent show more contributor to Texas Monthly, and staff writer for the Washington Post. His book My Mother's Keeper: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up in the Shadow of Schizophrenia (coauthored with Tara Elgin Holley) won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for best book of nonfiction. He lives in Houston, Texas. show less

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Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sociology, General Nonfiction
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796.357Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsAthletic and outdoor sports and gamesBall sportsBall and stick sportsBaseball
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GV875 .H64 .H655Geography, Anthropology and RecreationRecreation. LeisureRecreation. LeisureSportsBall games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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