Lest we forget: Harvey Dorfman

March 5, 2011

Don’t look for his name on Baseball-Reference.com. Harvey Dorfman, who specialized in helping players achieve peak mental conditioning, died earlier this week at the age of 75.

I was wondering why he had multiple books on Amazon’s best-selling baseball chart when I did the TWIBB entry; now I understand.

Dorfman had a major influence on lots of ballplayers and organizations, judging by the number of columns and obituaries about him, including:

According to the AP obiturary, “Dorfman wrote several books, including The Mental ABC’s of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement, The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement, Persuasion of My Days: An Anecdotal Memoir: The Early Years, and Coaching the Mental Game: Leadership Philosophies and Strategies for Peak Performance in Sports and Everyday Life. Together with [Karl] Kuehl, he wrote The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance.

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