Out of My League
Subtitle: The Classic Account of an Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780316284547
Subjects: Authors, biography; Humor, topic, sports; Baseball, anecdotes
Description: "Out of My League chronicles Plimpton's first foray into participatory journalism, among players like Mickey Mantle, Billy Martin, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, Richie Ashburn, and other baseball greats. What began as a fan's daydream comes thrillingly, sometimes humiliatingly, always vividly, to life as Plimpton shows the world what happens when an amateur takes the mound in a major league game and tries his arm against baseball's very best"--Page 4 of cover.