In the book I read over the summer, One Shot at Forever, by Chris Ballard, The character Steve Shartzer, a baseball player for Macon, takes everything on with a serious attitude. Throughout the story, the coach of the Macon team is enforcing a laid back, its just a game attitude. In a way, Shartzer is an antagonist because he won't stop taking the game to serious. In the end when they lose the last game of the tournament every one else is happy that they at least made it to the state finals but not Shartzer. He feels like he let everyone in his hometown down as he said on page 227. "Look at all these people lined up, Jack and Jeane and Lynn-these are the people I let down." When they are all on the bus in the parade home. He does not get off the bus when they make stops at other small towns to celebrate. His dad goes onto the bus to eventually coax him out of the bus and Shartzer eventually blames himself less and feels a little better about it. Even today he still blames himself and that was 40 years ago.
The following article is about how Chris Ballard got Steve Shartzer to help him make the book. I found this article on Sports Illustrated's website. Ballard Article
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