One Shot At Forever

Macon high school (The Simple School)

Lynn Sweet was a clean cut young man in his twenties. He had short hair and owned a brown 58 six-cylinder Ford Customline. Lynn was ready to start a new life and get his life started. He came in to macon for a job of being a teacher but he had no idea what he was getting into. Sweet had no idea what he will be changeing for these kids. All sweet knows is that he is going to be a simple teacher at a simple school. 

Sweet is a calm cool teacher who lets the students do whatever they want. If the kids dont want to do there hw then they simpily dont do it. Sweet quicky become the talk of the town. Parents would say, have you herd about that new teacher who gives weird books for the kids to read. All the student would talk about how sweet was so cool and how he was so laied back.   


The small farm town of Macon was changed by Lynn Sweet and the small town ended up changing  Lynn him self. Lynn Sweet was always a baseball fan he loved the Chicago Cubs. Lynn went to an outing with the teacher at the school. But what Lynn did not know was that this little trip, will change his life forever. When Lynn was at the game he talked alot about baseall and he sounded like he knew alot. The other teacher started to think that mabey Lynn could be the new coach. Lynn on the other hand was haveing fun at the game by cutting up Cardinals hats or screaming at the ump for makeing a bad call. But all the teachers cared about was getting a coach so the team could play.

                                                      Lynn Sweet the "after math"

Here is a video that will summarize this whole blog, the whole story of the 1971 Macon Ironmen.



This is the book cover page.