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The Game From Where I Stand

From Batting Practice to the Clubhouse to the Best Breakfast on the Road, an Inside View of a Ballpl

Doug Glanville
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Pages
304
Year
2010
Language
English
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.

About

An insider's revealing look at the hidden world of major league baseball

Doug Glanville, a former major league outfielder and Ivy League graduate, draws on his nine seasons in the big leagues to reveal the human side of the game and of the men who play it.

In The Game from Where I Stand, Glanville shows us how players prepare for games, deal with race and family issues, cope with streaks and slumps, respond to trades and injuries, and learn the joyful and painful lessons the game imparts. We see the flashpoints that cause misunderstandings and friction between players, and the imaginative ways they work to find common ground. And Glanville tells us with insight and humor what he learned from Jimmy Rollins, Alex Rodriguez, Randy Johnson, Barry Bonds, Curt Schilling, and other legendary and controversial stars.

In his professional career, Glanville experienced every aspect of being a player-the first-round pick, the prospect, the disappointment, the can't-miss, the cornerstone, the veteran, the traded, the injured, the comeback kid. His eye-opening book gives fans a new level of understanding of day-to-day life in the big leagues.

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  • Baseball
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Reviews

"Doug Glanville was always different from other baseball players -- in a good way. . . . He was more like one of us (regular folks) than one of them (exalted athletes). He saw himself the way you would if you made the majors: full of self-awareness and humanity, traits that are otherwise in short supply in the VIP-treated, image-conscious world of pro sports."
The Washington Post
"Doug Glanville is a salesman. The former Cub is selling two of the most vanishing commodities on the contemporary American slipscape -- empathetic insight and independent thought….It's an engaging and thoughtful detailing of the way a smart, feeling player processed and parried with the realities of megabyte-era Major League Baseball."
Jim O'Donnell, Chicago Sun-Times
"Glanville has an effective knack for unveiling the usually untold story of the tricky balancing act of real life -- ill family members, love life, confidence issues, lifestyle choices, injuries -- most players are constantly engaged in with varying degrees of success. . . . Generous, perceptive, wise (he's a Penn graduate, after all) and thoughtful, Glanville further distinguishes his career with this rich and rewarding look back at it."
Boston Herald

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