Preparing for the next phase? Dickey, Kershaw turning author

January 18, 2012

Because you always need to have a career plan.

R.A. Dickey, he of Mt. Kilimanjaro fame, will  publish Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball (with Wayne Coffey) in March via Blue Rider Press, a Penguin imprint. You can get samples of Dickey’s writing (about his recent adventures) from his blogs on the New York Times‘s site.

In addition, Clayton Kershaw, the 2011 NL Cy Young winner, and his wife, Ellen, recently released Arise: Live Out Your Faith and Dreams on Whatever Field You Find Yourself (with Ann Higginbottom/Regal), which covers his work with orphans in Africa whose families have been destroyed by AIDS.

These are not your typical active-player, Brosnan/Bouton/Hayhurst productions. Dickey and Kershaw write about issues away from the field that are important to them. Whether they will gain a wider audience because of their status as athletes remains to be seen.

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