Baseball's Great Expectations

Baseball’s Great Expectations features the fascinating stories of baseball players who were on the cusp of greatness, who everyone expected to be the next superstar, but never quite lived up to the hype—or through tragic circumstances, never had the chance.

Patrick Montgomery is an award-winning writer and a skilled media relations manager. His first book, The Baseball Miracle of the Splendid 6, garnered 1st place for Sports Books at the 2022 Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Awards and was a winner in the 2022 Hollywood Book Festival. His most recent book, Baseball's Great Expectations, earned a Booklist Starred Review and a Booklist Top-10 Book on Sports 2024. Montgomery is a youth softball coach, baseball historian, and member of the Society for American Baseball Research. He lives in South Carolina.