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From the writer of Pitching Around Fidel and A good deal Afield comes a tragic but eventually uplifting profile of the accidental death of modest league first-base coach Mike Coolbaugh, illustrating the many ways in which football still has a hold on America. This season's Fri Night Lights, Heart and soul of the Game centers on the loss of life of Mike Coolbaugh, a league coach who was wiped out in July 2007 with a foul ball rocketed off Tino Sanchez's bat. Coolbaugh passed on very quickly, his body carted from the field of the Double-A Arkansas Travelers on the suffocating Sunday night time in Little Rock. He was 35 years old and the daddy of two, with a 3rd child on the way. Mike's exemplary life - his devotion to game and family - is the spinal column of the storyline. But it isn't the episode. The episode is in the sharing with of what can happen whenever a projectile hits the wrong place on the human body, of the lives being lived until that fatal point in time, of the remarkable people who happened to be in the ballpark that evening, of the impact on the person who hit the ball, and of all the lives left out. Price unveils anew that common heart and soul of Americana - small-town athletics, small-town lives - and makes us understand that a game played out from the mindless churn of Internet blather and highlight shows can be more important than those played out on the national stage.
