A Nice Tuesday
A Memoir
A middle-aged man tries to return to baseball-and become a better husband and father-in this funny, heartfelt memoir by the author of A False Spring. One of baseball's original bonus babies, Pat Jordan signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1959-and then proceeded to struggle mightily in the minor leagues over the next three years. Depressed and frustrated, he gave up on baseball and eventually discovered his true calling as one of American's greatest sportswriters. But the unfulfilled promise of his youth continued to haunt Jordan, until, at the ripe old age of fifty-six, he resolved to get back into shape and rediscover his fastball. Come hel…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5040-3365-7
- EAN: 9781504033657
- Produktnummer: 31910320
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 341 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'353 KB
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Pat Jordan is a celebrated sportswriter and novelist whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, GQ, Harper's, the New Yorker, Playboy, and the New York Times Magazine, among many other publications. A top high school pitching prospect, he spent three years with the Milwaukee Braves organization before leaving professional baseball to pursue a writing career. Time magazine praised A False Spring, a memoir about his time in the minor leagues, as one of the best and truest books about baseball and about coming to maturity in America, and Sports Illustrated named it one of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. In the follow-up, A Nice Tuesday, Jordan chronicles his unlikely return to the mound at the age of fifty-six. His numerous other books include the sports anthologies The Suitors of Spring, Broken Patterns, and The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan, and the crime novels a.k.a. Sheila Doyle and a.k.a. Sheila Weinstein.
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