Willowbrook coach encourages Willowbrook Boys Baseball Team members to enjoy reading

To instill a love of reading in students, Willowbrook Boys Baseball Varsity Head Coach Vic Wisner gave each member of the Willowbrook Boys Baseball Varsity Team a copy of the book “One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season” by Chris Ballard.

According to www.amazon.com, the book tells the story of how in 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make the State Final, a distinction that still stands.