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Table Of ContentBATTING PRACTICE--ThE INTRODUCTION ThE EARLY INNINGS--GETTING IN THE GAME THE FIRST INNING--DREAMS Top Half Darrel's Big League Dream Started Early Bottom Half God Plants a Dream in Every Man THE SECOND INNING--HEROES Top Half Darrel's Big League Hero Bottom Half Every Man Needs a Hero-Every Man Needs to Be A Hero THE MIDDLE INNINGS--FACING THE COMPETITION THE THIRD INNING--RESILIENCE Top Half Surviving an Ambush on 'Darrel Chaney Day" Bottom Half Every Man Gets Ambushed and Needs a Survival Strategy THE FOURTH INNING--PERSEVERANCE Top Half Darrel's Big League Setback--Making the Most of the Minor Leagues Bottom Half Every Man Needs to Persevere His Setbacks THE FIFTH INNING--WORTH Top Half Another One-Year Contract Challenged-Darrel's Big League Worth Bottom Half Every Man's Worth is Revealed in a Covenant THE SIXTH INNING--PERSPECTIVE Top Half Darrel's Competition with Self Bottom Half The Right Perspective Helps Every Man Master Self THE SEVENTH INNING--PURPOSE Top Half Darrel Needed to Be Ready When the Game Came to Him Bottom Half Every Man Has a Position on the Team THE LATE INNINGS--KEEPING THE SCORE THE EIGHTH INNING--IMMEASURABLE Top Half Darrel's Top 10 Big League Successes Every Man's Top 10 Success List THE NINTH INNING--IMPERATIVE Top Half Darrel's Place In History Bottom Half Every Man's Impact on History EXTRA INNINGS--WINNING THE GAME THE TENTH INNING--ETERNAL Top Half A Big Leaguer Encounters Eternity Bottom Half Every Man's Encounter with Eternity THE ELEVENTH INNING--DESTINY Top Half Darrel's Life Changes Bottom Half Every Man's Life Changes THE TWELTH INNING--INFINITE Top Half Darrel's Greatest Achievements Bottom Half Every Man's Infinite Results
SynopsisDarrel Chaney made it to the Big Leagues. He played for 7 years on one of the best teams ever to take the field, the Cincinnati Reds--the Big Red Machine. He played in 4 National League Championship Series and 3 World Series. He was in the game that the Major League Baseball Network considered the best game of the last 50 years--game 6 of the 1975 World Series. But Darrel had a nagging frustration that eroded his belief in his significance. Disappointments, setbacks and opposition attacked his dream. He was a utility player among superstars. Most men are utility players. They face the same battles that Darrel faced. They get frustrated and lose enthusiasm for work and life itself. But, when a man discovers his God given significance, he enjoys life more and does better in it. Then, whatever his game, he is in the Big Leagues., Your life matters, not because of what you have done or what you possess. Even when things go wrong or you make mistakes, your life still matters. It matters, because God says it does. There is a tendency for a man to measure his worth with the wrong measurement system, to compare his life with others or not like his place on the team. But when a man knows who he is in the eyes of God, he experiences his significance. Every event and relationship has unlimited potential. He has made it to the Big Leagues. Welcome to the Big Leagues--Every Man's Journey to Significance, The Darrel Chaney Story , shows a utility player's struggle--on one of the best baseball teams to ever take the field--with ambushes, setbacks, minimum wage one year contracts and changes beyond his control. But he makes his Top-10 list, encounters the Eternal and realizes he has his place on the team and in history. Through it all, he discovered his God given significance and found it was not only the best way to play in the Big Leagues; it was the way to live a Big League life. Welcome to the Big Leagues tells the baseball story, and at the same time it helps every man learn the same lessons. He needs to make his Top-10 list, encounter the Eternal and know his place on the team and in history. Every man can experience his God given significance. Many men are changed by the world, but the man who knows his significance, that his life matters, is a man who will change the world. He is in the Big Leagues.
LC Classification NumberGV865.C425H37 2013