“Do not dive into a relationship headfirst, it could be a bad decision. “Everything that you do, do not do headfirst, even in a relationship,” Iery said. “So I really got back into it when Keith Prater, who was a high school coach of Lewis county, invited me up to talk to the kids,” Iery said.Įventually starting up The David Iery Foundation, he now travels around the state, speaking to students, changing the way youth athletes view choices and decisions in their lives. Of course, with all that going on, it’s like you feel kind of guilty or ashamed to get back into baseball,” Iery said.īut what baseball took from him, baseball also gave back to him. “I got out of baseball for a little while there. They aren’t healing, there’s no cure for it,” Iery said.Īnd for a long time, Iery had a difficult time getting back into the sport. You don’t want to break your neck because it ain’t going to heal your nerve cells.

Now paralyzed from the chest down, he uses his experience to teach students about spinal cord injuries. “I broke my neck playing baseball in high school when I was a senior in 1989 sliding headfirst into home plate,” Iery said.

Iery travels around the state talking with students, bringing an awareness to spinal cord awarenessĬertain choices and decisions are what left David Iery with a spinal cord injury at 17 years old.

The accident left Iery paralyzed from the chest down.

Iery broke his neck sliding into home plate in 1989.

The David Iery Foundation is working to educate youth athletes and spread spinal cord research.

If gorgeous, strong men taking on the role of father with no questions asked, kickstart your heart, then you'll love Sliding Headfirst.

If you love friends to lovers and the fake dating trope, Sliding Headfirst is full of heat, humor and heartbreak that will keep you reading to the HEA. Ghosts from our pasts still linger in our hearts and keep us apart.īut will Megan leave her past behind and win Patrick's love in extra innings? Sparks fly as we blur the lines between fantasy and reality. I need to remember he may love my son but we are just friends-pretending to be more. All is well until I feel the need to save him from his ex and jump at the chance to be his fake-girlfriend for a weekend getaway.īut when he's playing baseball with my son, pesky little butterflies flutter inside my soul. So now, I’m making good on the date I bought and paid for with a major league baseball player and quasi-friend. I’m a man that needs control and right now-I have none. But now I can’t control my feelings about my gorgeous fake girlfriend-wearing nothing but my college t-shirt. I took command of every aspect of my life. I didn’t become a professional athlete by chance. Insert weekend trip and fake date with a single mom. FACT: Fake dating can be harmful to your heart.Ĭan you imagine a World Series champion not having a date to his high school reunion?

Sliding Headfirst by Kristin Lee