A Boerne resident and former Boerne Champion athlete has written a book about fictional sports movies entitled “Movies with Balls: The Greatest Sports Films of All Time Analyzed and Illustrated.”
Kyle Bandujo, a 2009 Champion graduate and former Chargers baseball player, is the author while Rick Bryson illustrated the book.
According to a press release, the book is “an entertaining celebration of the greatest matchups in sports movie history. Packed with illustrations of fictional ticket stubs, trading cards, play maps, and more, Movies with Balls will transport readers to their favorite cinematic moments from movies like Field of Dreams, Bend It Like Beckham, Creed, The Karate Kid, and other iconic sports films.”
Bandujo and Bryson were working on the first draft and got 20,000 words and a few months into it but changed direction with the book and had to start over.
The final version is 50,000 words and 272 pages long. Because of all the art involved, the book is only available in hard copy.
“It’s a fun book for someone into sports movies,” Bandujo said.
The only catch to the book is that all the movies featured are fictional.
“There’s no ‘League of their Own’ stories, it’s movies like Bull Durham and Major League,” Bandujo said. “It’s a mix of 26 sports movies we loved. Hockey, soccer, women’s sports and odd-ball sports.”
Bandujo called writing the book a labor of love.
“I loved it,” he said. “I reached out to experts, people in auto racing and football, people from all over and we were doing the book from a fan’s perspective.”
The book goes on sale Sept. 24, and is being published by Quirk and Penguin Random House and can be found wherever books are sold.
The book is also available at www.movieswithballs.com Bandujo will have a signing at the Boerne Book Shop on Saturday, Nov. 2, from 12 to 2 p.m.
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