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Coach Deggs Sparknotes

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1. What kind of book is this? List three evidences of this.
This book is an autobiography that was written by Coach Matt Deggs. It is based on true events regarding his life as a coach and how he found God. This book is a riveting story that reveals God’s love, power, and redemption of Coach Matt Deggs life as a coach, husband, and friend.
On chapter 1, Coach Matt Deggs was interviewed after advancing to the Super Regionals, which is a best out 3 to advance to the College World Series in Omaha. By know you have guessed that this a book about baseball but more importantly it’s how Coach Matt Deggs changed his way of coach his team and most importantly how he found God.
In page 28, he quotes Matthew 6:1-4, “be careful not to practice your righteousness …show more content…

He was not ashamed to write and discuss some personal issues he had with his ego and drinking. He writes about how he had once coached at Texas A&M and how he was fired in 2011, right before going to the College World Series and basically didn’t have job for about 430 days as he refers to it in the book, 430 without baseball in my life. I think that was bold of him to say he was fired from TX A&M. They are one of the top baseball programs in the country. He is very passionate about his players and has turned the baseball program at Sam Houston State. He goes on to discuss how his players don’t take life for granted. He talks freely how all he cared about was winning games and getting to the Championship game, which yes we would all like to get there, but his purpose was to teach the young men to be responsible adults. How to create relationship with God, family, and friends. From this point on, Coach Deggs’ mission shifted from being a transactional coach, concerned only with W’s (wins) and L’s (lose), to a transformational coach, whose focus lies in developing men and impacting …show more content…

He started to talk about the coach at Sam Houston State and how he turned himself around for the better. I anxiously waited for the book to come in so that I could read it. From the moment I started to read it I could not put it down. It is one of those books that you could spend an entire day in a quite space and read the book. This book and the one on Josh Hamilton are the type of books that is difficult to put down. As a matter of fact my mom read it after I did and we have been able to have discussions on certain parts of the

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