Out of My League: The Classic Account of an Amateurs Ordeal in Professional Baseball

This baseball classic that Ernest Hemingway called beautifully observed and incredibly conceived includes a foreword from Jane Leavy and neverbeforeseen content from the Plimpton archives.The first of Plimptons remarkable forays into participatory journalism, Out of My League chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a selfprofessed amateur has the chance to answer every fans question: could he strike out a major league star?Plimptons inspired idea to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the AllStars of the American and National Leagues begins as a funfilled stunt and comes to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. This honest and hilarious tale features Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, and other baseball greats and is a baseball book such as no one else ever wrote, and one of the best ever.New York Herald Tribune