My Fortunate Detour: Making a right turn into a baseball career among the mountains of West Virginia.

"My Fortunate Detour" chronicles the story of Jim Holland beginning with a childhood in the late-1960's / early-1970's in Dunbar, WV as a young a fan passionately following all sports during seemingly every waking hour daily. Like many people, adulthood for him followed with college plus a decade of a corporate workforce routine through the end of the 1980's that provided him with a living but never satisfaction. This book unveils to the reader how things changed for Jim through a series of chance meetings and turns on his journey at exactly the right moments to alter his course in life for the next thirty years to follow. Read here as Jim shares many stories of his experiences, as well as many of the people he met, over his long career in baseball administration for both professional and summer collegiate teams operating among the picturesque landscape of southern West Virginia. Read more