Out of My League
The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball
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The first of Plimpton's remarkable forays into participatory journalism, Out of My League chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a self-professed amateur has the chance to answer every fan's question: could he strike out a major league star?
Plimpton's inspired idea — to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars of the American and National Leagues — begins as a fun-filled stunt and comes to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. This honest and hilarious tale features Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, and other baseball greats and is "a baseball book such as no one else ever wrote, and one of the best ever."-New York Herald Tribune
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Release date
April 26, 2016 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781478981169
- File size: 132091 KB
- Duration: 04:35:11
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Writer George Plimpton's experience pitching against major leaguers comes alive in this first-person account from the mound. Narrator Robert Fass gives Plimpton an ever so light New England, by way of Exeter Academy, accent, a solid reminder of the late author. In 1958, Plimpton--on assignment for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED--set out to face the National and American Leagues' batting lineups, with the magazine putting up $1,000 to the team that fared better against Plimpton. Fass does a great job throughout, and he especially shines when Plimpton details the inner voice equally guiding and cajoling him--a voice the writer himself finds ironic since it is delivered in a Southern accent. This wonderful, honest, humorous listen draws on Fass's high-quality narration. M.B. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
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