Tim Brown
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role players and specialists and journeymen and then there are the backup catchers. The Tao of the Backup Catcher is about them, the backup catchers, who exist near the bottom of the roster and the end of the bench and between the numbers in a sport-and a society-increasingly driven by cold, hard analytics." -- inside front jacket flap.
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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"A one-handed pitcher who became one of the select few to pitch a no-hitter in Major League Baseball explains how he rose above his disability to excel at the sport he loved in high school, college, and adulthood"--