Book : The Bullpen Gospels A Non-prospects Pursuit Of The...

-Titulo Original : The Bullpen Gospels A Non-prospects Pursuit Of The Major Leagues And The Meaning Of Life

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Citadel

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After many minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years spent in the bullpen, I can verify that this is a true picture of baseball.--Tim McCarver There are great truths within, of the kind usually unspoken. And as he expresses them, Dirk Hayhurst describes himself as a real person who moonlights as a baseball player. In much the same manner, while The Bullpen Gospels chronicles how all of us face the impact when we learn reality is both far meaner and far richer than our dreams--it also moonlights as one of the best baseball books ever written.--Keith Olbermann A bit of Jim Bouton, a bit of Jim Brosnan, a bit of Pat Jordan, a bit of crash Davis, and a whole lot of Dirk Hayhurst. Often hilarious, sometimes poignant. This is a really enjoyable baseball read.--Bob Costas Fascinating. . .a perspective that fans rarely see.--Trevor Hoffman, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers The Bullpen Gospels is a rollicking good bus ride of a book. Hayhurst illuminates a baseball life not only with wit and humor, but also with thought-provoking introspection.--Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated Dirk Hayhurst has written a fascinating, funny and honest account on life in the minor leagues. I loved it. Writers cant play baseball, but in this case, a player sure can write.--Tim Kurkjian, Senior Writer, ESPN The Magazine, analyst/reporter ESPN television Bull Durham meets Ball Four in Dirk Hayhursts hilarious and moving account of life in baseballs glamour-free bush leagues.--Rob Neyer, ESPN If Holden Caulfield could dial up his fastball to 90 mph, he might have written this funny, touching memoir about a ballplayer at a career--and life--crossroads. He might have called it Pitcher in the Rye. Instead, he left it to Dirk Hayhurst, the only writer in the business who can make you laugh, make you cry and strike out Ryan Howard.--King Kaufman, Salon The Bullpen Gospels is a funny bone-tickling, tear duct-stimulating, feel-good story that will leave die-hard baseball fans--and die-hard human beings, for that matter--well, feeling good.--Bob Mitchell, author of Once Upon a Fastball From the Author Best Baseball Autobiography Since Bouton?Dirk Hayhursts description of himself for the authors ID in his upcoming book The Bullpen Gospels reads in part, Dirk is a former member of the San Diego Padres, and after this book gets printed, a former member of the Toronto Blue Jays.Im not sure hes correct. In fact, Im not sure that in these times when so many fans feel like theyre constantly having the wool pulled over their eyes by athletes ill-equipped for the attempt, if Hayhursts constant honesty, his remarkable candor, his drumbeat of unadorned confessed self-doubt, and his seamless writing, wont resonate through the sport like the first true wonderful day of spring when the game and the weather finally reassure you that winter has been beaten back, at least for a season.In fact, Im not sure that he hasnt written the best baseball autobiography since Jim Boutons Ball Four. For Hayhurst, who bombed as a starter for the Padres in 2008 and then showed promise out of the Jays bullpen the season past, has written what Bouton wrote, and what a decade before Bouton, what Jim Brosnan wrote - a book that is seemingly about baseball but which, as you read further and further into it, is obviously much bigger than that. These are books about life: struggle, confusion, purpose, purposelessness, and the startling realization that achievement and failure are nearly-identical twins, one which gnaws and deadens, the other which just as often produces not elation but a tinny, empty sound.Brosnans achievement, in The Long Season and Pennant Race, was to introduce to a world which previously had no information of any kind on the subject, the concept of athlete as human being. What did he have to do when demoted, or traded? What happened when management changed? Was there a Mrs. Athlete, and co