“THE PASSION OF BASEBALL” AVAILABLE WEDNESDAY
Source: American Association News
It is said that only about six per cent of the United States population gets to spend a lifetime working in a profession the person dreamed of since childhood. Author Bob Wirz believes he is part of a much smaller group who has lived a long life rubbing shoulders with the biggest names in baseball without ever swinging a bat or throwing a ball beyond the scruffiest of diamonds. “The Passion of Baseball”, Wirz’s book (October 5, Ravenwood Publishing), tells the headline-making, celebrity-filled story of living out the dream of a tiny town lad who grew up in the Sandhills of Nebraska and went on to head up Major League Baseball’s media fishbowl for more than a decade in New York City. As a friend once put it, this is a “dream journey from Halsey (current population 76) to Gotham. Holy Cow!” Wirz uses more than 300 riveting pages to share insights on the early years of the Kansas City Royals (he was publicity director) to White House trips, sitting with manager Bob Lemon on the New York Yankees’ victory flight after the history-making Bucky Dent home run of 1978, surviving the early years of the sport’s anger-filled free agency…
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