Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit
by:
Matt McCarthy (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670020706 (0670020702)
Publish date: February 19th 2009
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 295
Edition language: English
I kind of loved this, really. It's close to a five star book, but for a bit of nagging distraction.I am a fan of baseball, especially the local minor league team, the Durham Bulls. So I loved getting the perspective of a player going through a farm system. It's also well-written and perfectly paced....
In the 2002 ML baseball draft, Matt McCarthy, a Yale lefty with a fastball that had occasional familiarity with 90+mph was drafted in the 26th round by the Anaheim Angels. He was urged by friends and relations to keep a journal of his experiences, and those journals form the basis of this 2009 stor...
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