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Inside Pitch by George Gmelch, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From George Gmelch

Current price: $26.95
Inside Pitch by George Gmelch, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Inside Pitch by George Gmelch, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Inside Pitch by George Gmelch, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From George Gmelch

Current price: $26.95
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Size: 0.53 x 9.01 x 360

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From the spark of ambition to play baseball professionally to the necessity of reinventing life after baseball, the anthropologist and former Minor Leaguer George Gmelch describes the lives of the men who work at America's national game. Twenty-four years after his own final road trip as a minor leaguer, Gmelch went back on the road with ballplayers, this time with a pen and pad to record the details of life around the diamond. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with Major and Minor League players, coaches, and managers, Gmelch explores players' experiences throughout their careers: being scouted, becoming a rookie, moving through or staying in the Minors, preparing mentally and physically to play day after day, coping with slumps and successes, and facing retirement. He examines the ballplayers' routines and rituals, describes their joys and frustrations, and investigates the roles of wives, fans, and groupies in their lives. Based on his own experience as a player in the 1960s, Gmelch charts the life cycle of the modern professional ballplayer and makes perceptive comparisons to a previous generation of players. | Inside Pitch by George Gmelch, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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