Combine elite athletes, a world-class university and an All-American Midwestern town and one has the story of young athletes and their coaches in the challenging environment of contemporary collegiate baseball. Wolverine Diamonds: A Year in the Life of Michigan Baseball gives the reader a unique look behind the scenes, inside the locker room, and classroom, of true student-athletes; the successes, the failures, the pressures, the dreams…both fulfilled and vanquished. “A fantastic, absorbing read. For any University of Michigan or even any true college baseball fan, Michael Wilson has immersed himself into a season-long quest to understand the sport and its players. With incredible access to one of the country’s top programs we are allowed a rare peek into all of the passion, joy and even heartbreak the game has to offer.” Jim Abbott, MLB & College Baseball Legend “Here I was – a former athlete, a die-hard baseball fan, a rookie journalist – being given the opportunity to sit in dugouts, locker rooms and press boxes across the land, to peel back the onion of one of the most storied baseball programs in collegiate history. I did not want to screw this up.”