Apprentice House Press is set to release U MUST BE CINDERELLA! by veteran author and journalist, Kevin Cowherd. The book, available on March 1, chronicles the rise of the UMBC men’s basketball team in 2018.
The book is available for purchase through Apprentice House Press, Amazon.com, BN.com at your favorite booksellers.
About the Book
Many call it the biggest upset in sports history. Bigger than the Jets over the Colts in Super Bowl III. Bigger than the U.S. hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice” win over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Bigger than Buster Douglas’s stunning KO of Mike Tyson 10 years later.
When little-known UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) takes the floor against mighty Virginia in the first round of the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the whole world knows the Retrievers will lose. They’re 20 1/2-point underdogs. ESPN’s Power Basketball Index gives them a 1.5 per cent chance of winning. They’re a lowly 16-seed going against the overall no. 1-seed. And a 16 has never beaten a 1. Never, ever.
Yet on a magical weekend in Charlotte, N.C., the odds go up in flames. March Madness hits a whole new level. This is the dramatic story of the singular team that made bracket-busting history and thrilled a nation, and the school that headline writers and social media pundits were now calling – devoid of irony – “U MUST BE CINDERELLA!”
About Author Kevin Cowherd
Kevin Cowherd is the New York Times best-selling author of Hothead and five other baseball novels for young readers written with Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. Cowherd’s last work of non-fiction, When the Crowd Didn’t Roar: How Baseball’s Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope, was praised in the Times’ 2019 Summer Reading Issue as one of the five best new sports books. Cowherd was an award-winning sport columnist and features writer for the Baltimore Sun for 32 years. He has also written for Men’s Health, Parenting and Baseball Digest magazines.
