* Announcement: New Strawberry book on tap?

May 1, 2008

Yes, according to this bitty item in The New York Times:

STRAWBERRY TO WRITE A BOOK Darryl Strawberry is writing a memoir, “Straw,” that will come out in 2009, according to the publisher Ecco.

Ecco is a Harper Collins imprint.

Strawberry collaborated on his story once before, with Art Rust, Jr. in Darryl, published by Bantam in 1992. He also did a book with his wife, Charisse, in 1999 titled Recovering Life, written after his battle with cancer.

More on the Ecco project.

Seeing that Strawberry is only 46 makes me sad that he squandered his talent. It reminds me of the scene in A League of Their Own, in which the candy magnate Harvey (Leonard Marshall) offers Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) the job of managing the Rockford Peaches. He expresses his disappointment by telling the alcoholic Dugan, “You’re a young man, you could still be playing….”

Nowadays, 46 doesn’t seem too old to still be be playing. (Spoken like a true 50-year-old.)

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