What happens when Chris Gallo, a Shelton CPA and self-proclaimed baseball fanatic, turned author, dials back 25 years to 1989, the year Trumbull's little leaguers won the championship against Taiwan? The answer is simple! Gallo wrote a home run of an American baseball book, Unlikely Champions: A Miracle in Williamsport, just released, which will appeal to baseball fans of all ages.
This book is so timely, particularly given the potential push to another championship by the Fairfield American team. If they make it to Williamsport, PA, you can be sure that Gallo will be right in the stands.
In his book, Gallo, who witnessed his first major league game -a World Series game, no less- between the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Braves in 1958, has zeroed in on the team, the stress, the struggles and the teamwork that led these guys, who are successful and still in the area, to win the championship. Gallo has peppered the book with first-person interviews of many of the players and coaches, as they reminiscence about the experience and share the life lessons they learned.
One of the key missions of Gallo's story was to let the players talk about how this experience changed their lives -from ordinary 12-year-olds to Little League World Champions, and follows them as they grow into adults, who have succeeded in life and in business. This is an American baseball story finally...and finely told.