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Title Statement | The tao of the backup catcher: playing baseball for the love of the game / Tim Brown with Erik Kratz. |
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Author | Brown, Tim, 1962- |
Additional Contributors | Kratz, Erik,1980- |
Publication | New York: Twelve,[2023]©2023 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | vii, 289 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781538726556 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr06975814 |
Summary | "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. It is a story of grown men who once dreamed of stardom and generational wealth. Instead, they were handed a broom and a deeper understanding of who wins and why, who stands tall and who folds, and who will invest their own lives in catching bullpens and the back ends of doubleheaders. This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back -- told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran"-- |
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By Topic | Baseball players |
Baseball players--Biography--United States | |
Catchers (Baseball) | |
Catchers (Baseball)--Biography--United States | |
By Name | Kratz, Erik,1980- |
By Genre | Biographies |
Personal narratives |