EBOOK [P.D.F] One Base at a Time: How I Survived

<b>As featured in <i>The Boston Globe Magazine</i>!</b><br /> <br /><b>“Dave Mellor has built one of baseball’s most inspirational stories over the last half-century. Anchored by a love for his family and the game, he survived incomprehensible catastrophes and PTSD to become a pioneering ballfield artist and head groundskeeper for <u>Fenway Park</u>.”</b><br /> <br /> <b>—Buster Olney, ESPN</b><br /><br />On July 10, 1981, David Mellor was just a baseball-crazed kid, a star high school pitcher preparing to go to college and dreaming of one day taking the mound in Fenway Park for his beloved Boston Red Sox. His dream was derailed as he crossed the parking lot of a McDonald’s. He heard the racing engine, but couldn’t defend himself against the car coming straight at him. It sent him flying through the air and into a wall, where it hit him again and pinned him, severely damaging his knee and destroying his hope of ever being a Major League pitcher.<br /> <br /> In the wake of the accident