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- Book Title
- Tao of the Backup Catcher : Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game
- Publication Name
- The Tao of the Backup Catcher
- Title
- The Tao of the Backup Catcher
- Subtitle
- Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game
- Contributor
- Erik Kratz (With)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1538726556
- EAN
- 9781538726556
- ISBN
- 9781538726556
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General, Sports
- Release Date
- 11/07/2023
- Release Year
- 2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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"This isn't just a story about baseball. It's about life and the beauty of knowing and accepting who you are." --Jeff Passan, ESPN baseball columnist 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 backtold partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran. 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. The Tao of the Backup Catcher 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. Backup catchers survive in part because every team needs one. They are necessary, once or twice a week. They prosper because the game, like the world around the game, still needs good souls, honest efforts, open eyes and ears, closed mouths, compassion for the sad parts, a laugh for the silly parts, and a heart that knows the difference. Backup catchers are sports' big brothers, psychologists, priests, witch doctors, player coaches, father figures and drinking buddies, all wrapped in a suit of today's polycarbonate armor and yesterday's dirt. They come with a singular goal-to win baseball games. They play for the greater good. After that, they play for themselves. A reverie on loving the grind and the little things baseball can teach us, The Tao of the Backup Catcher profiles Erik Kratz, Josh Paul, AJ Ellis, Bobby Wilson, Drew Butera, Matt Treanor, and John Flaherty to name a few. "This isn't just a story about baseball. It's about life and the beauty of knowing and accepting who you are." Jeff Passan
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1538726556
ISBN-13
9781538726556
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22058373001
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tao of the Backup Catcher : Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / Essays & Writings, Baseball / General, Sports
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
As Told to
Kratz, Erik
Lc Classification Number
Gv867.B77 2023
Reviews
"This is a honey of a book. Tim Brown and Erik Kratz have my everlasting gratitude for this exquisite reminder of what baseball--and baseball writing--was like before velo, and rpms, and launch angles and barrels, and $43.3 million dollar annual salaries changed the conversation and the game became a discussion about everything other than people. This ode to the backup catcher with grit beneath his fingernails and grit within his soul is a must read. It will make you feel better about humanity."-- Jane Leavy, American sportswriter and feature writer, formerly with The Washington Post, "Nobody captures the soul of a ballplayer like Tim Brown. In THE TAO OF THE BACKUP CATCHER, Brown delivers a masterpiece on the invisible yet indispensable character on every team, the guy who knows the value in using a new mitt to warm up a fading veteran, just to get a louder pop on the fastball. With graceful writing and richly detailed reporting, Brown shows that when you know the backup catcher - a role that's three-quarters psychologist and one-quarter ballplayer, as one practitioner put it - you'll understand the heart of baseball."-- Tyler Kepner, New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, "Lend Tim Brown's inimitable voice to a sporting subculture overflowing with personality, mix in Erik Kratz's tale of perseverance and what blossoms is magic. This isn't a story about baseball. It's about life and the beauty of knowing and accepting who you are."-- Jeff Passan, ESPN baseball columnist and bestselling author of The Arm
Lccn
2023-290599
Dewey Decimal
796.357092/2
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20230627
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