The Last Hurrah - Hardcover

by Jeffery L. Coffey (Author), Steve Wray (Cover Design by)

The Last Hurrah is a fictional novel detailing the demise and eventual collapse of Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association and all college sports circa 2029. Everyone has their own opinions as to the causes but follow as sports writer Ron Mills details each collapse in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Demise. This is followed by a series of newspaper articles by ninety year old former sportscaster the cantankerous Floyd Beal who has his own opinions of what not only happened to sports in America but the demise of the country itself. While the collapse of the sports was discouraging follow along as attorney Shaun O'Leary fights to bring sports back to America with his own innovative ideas. Can one man make a difference? Its up to O'Leary, but is it too late? The book is filled with actual sports stories and history to compliment the fictional characters. Jeffery Coffey is a husband, father, and grandfather. He is the author of Coming Back: Matthew 6:34 a motivational inspirational book. Coming Back has been read all over the world and received notations from a U.S. Air Force Major in Afghanistan. It reached Barnes and Noble Top 100 in 2010 and was reviewed by ESPN for a possible movie. Jeffery has a background in sports and has coached and played at every level from youth to professional. This background led him to realize that every decade there seemed to be less interest in sports at every level from youth sports to professional leagues and even his own interest waned. This is his first fictional work. This three year project involved hours of research into the history of each sport leading to the fiction aspects of the book that detail the collapse of sports in America.