* It doesn't Happen Every Spring

November 17, 2008

from Library Journal.com, this “prepub Alert:

McCarthy, Matt. Odd Man Out: A Season on the Mound with Minor League Baseball’s Most Unlikely Pitcher. Viking. Mar. 2009. 320p. ISBN 978-0-670-02070-6. $25.95.
It’s not every Yale molecular biophysics major who ends up playing baseball professionally. McCarthy, currently interning at New York’s Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, here recounts a season with the Anaheim Angels’ Class A minor league affiliate after being selected in the 21st round of the 2002 draft. With a five-city tour.

An egg-head scientist playing in the pros? Sounds like a good idea for a major motion picture. Oh wait, it’s been done.



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