The Phenomenon
Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life
Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch -- not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as the Yips. It came without warning, in the middle of a playoff game, with millions of people watching. And it has never gone away. Yet the true test of Ankiel's character came not on the mound, but in the long days and nights that followed as he searched for a way to get back in the game. For four and a half years, he fought the Yips wit…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61039-687-5
- EAN: 9781610396875
- Produktnummer: 22909851
- Verlag: PublicAffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'798 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Rick Ankiel was a major-league pitcher and outfielder with the St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Nationals, among other teams, for eleven seasons. Born in 1979, Ankiel debuted with the Cardinals a month after his 20th birthday, and became the first major-league player since Babe Ruth to win at least ten games as a pitcher and hit at least fifty home runs. He retired as a player in 2013. He is currently a studio analyst for Fox Sports Midwest. With his wife, Lory, and sons Declan and Ryker, Ankiel lives in Jupiter, Fla. Tim Brown is an award-winning writer with twenty-five years' experience covering Major League Baseball at the Los Angeles Times, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Los Angeles Daily News and Yahoo! Sports. He co-wrote, with Jim Abbott, the New York Times bestseller, Imperfect: An Improbable Life. He resides with his wife, Kelly, in Venice, CA.
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