Setting Life's Course: Discovering Value and Purpose

Welcome to a true story that begins on a Baltimore sandlot in the early 1950s. A young boy's love of baseball defines his direction and goals. Bill Hudson enjoys America's greatest decade of prosperity with rock 'n' roll, television, classic cars, smoking, Catholic nuns, slingshots, BB guns, and mischief with an unforgettable team of neighborhood characters. But life threw some curveballs and opened other doors. He developed interests and talents taking him to the west coast of California in the '60s as an aerospace engineer. He met and married Ellie. Life confirmed a mutual purpose as their children soon numbered eight--four boys and four girls. Baseball became a family bond and Bill realized his love of baseball had far greater value than ever imagined in his childhood dreams.Setting Life's Course is a baseball book...a family story of boys to men in the baby boomer era. Filled with humorous memoirs, this will become a classic in the categories of: the fifties and baseball, boys adventure books, and coming of age books."This is a poignant story of a life well-lived from the incredible freedom of a '50s childhood in Maryland's suburbs through the ups and downs of life on the west coast. The book offers unfailing inspiration and insight into the gifts of love, family, and day-to-day existence. It is a pure joy to read." Carol L. Deibel