Just Need An Opportunity: Let's Play Ball

By Tony Vlahovic MA. MPM. CSCS

What happens when raw talent meets a world that keeps saying not yet?

Just Need An Opportunity: Let's Play Ball is the memoir of former professional baseball player Tony Vlahovic - a story about grinding through rejection, seizing the moments most people miss, and turning the hardest innings of a life into something that matters far beyond the diamond.

Sports teaches you things a classroom rarely can. Timing. Pressure. How to fail in front of everyone and still show up tomorrow. Tony Vlahovic's journey through professional baseball and into coaching reveals what happens when you refuse to let circumstances have the final word. The lessons here go far deeper than box scores.

But this book is about more than one career. It's about the people on the sidelines - the athletes, students, and individuals with disabilities who are too often told to wait, step aside, or settle. Vlahovic's work as a coach and mentor shows what becomes possible when someone finally says: you're up.

- A candid, first-person memoir from a former professional baseball player
- Honest lessons on resilience, preparation, and seizing opportunity under pressure
- A coach's perspective on mentorship and inclusion in sport and life
- Written for athletes, coaches, educators, and parents who believe sport changes lives
- Explores disability inclusion in sport through real experience, not theory

If you believe sport has the power to reshape a life - and that everyone deserves a fair shot at the plate - this is the book you've been looking for.

Pick up your copy and step up to the plate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C79L7W1L
• ISBN13: 9798395796707
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly Inspiring!

This book is for anyone and everyone who has ever faced difficulties in their lives! The author highlights the abilities of Individuals who have some type of disability. One of the best books I read this year and shared it with everyone I know