A Nice Tuesday
A Memoir
Published on 19. April 2016
341 pages
978-1-5040-3365-7 (ISBN)
Description
A middle-aged man tries to return to baseball-and become a better husband and father-in this funny, heartfelt memoir by the author of
A False Spring.
One of baseball's original "bonus babies," Pat Jordan signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1959-and then proceeded to struggle mightily in the minor leagues over the next three years. Depressed and frustrated, he gave up on baseball and eventually discovered his true calling as one of American's greatest sportswriters.
But the unfulfilled promise of his youth continued to haunt Jordan, until, at the ripe old age of fifty-six, he resolved to get back into shape and rediscover his fastball. Come hell or high water, he would pitch again, this time for the Waterbury (Connecticut) Saints, an independent minor league team made up of players half his age.
Eloquent, honest, and delightfully bawdy, A Nice Tuesday is the sequel to Jordan's acclaimed memoir, A False Spring, and the unforgettable chronicle of a sports comeback unlike any other.
One of baseball's original "bonus babies," Pat Jordan signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1959-and then proceeded to struggle mightily in the minor leagues over the next three years. Depressed and frustrated, he gave up on baseball and eventually discovered his true calling as one of American's greatest sportswriters.
But the unfulfilled promise of his youth continued to haunt Jordan, until, at the ripe old age of fifty-six, he resolved to get back into shape and rediscover his fastball. Come hell or high water, he would pitch again, this time for the Waterbury (Connecticut) Saints, an independent minor league team made up of players half his age.
Eloquent, honest, and delightfully bawdy, A Nice Tuesday is the sequel to Jordan's acclaimed memoir, A False Spring, and the unforgettable chronicle of a sports comeback unlike any other.
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Person
Pat Jordan is a celebrated sportswriter and novelist whose work has appeared in the
Atlantic,
GQ,
Harper's, the
New Yorker,
Playboy, and the
New York Times Magazine, among many other publications. A top high school pitching prospect, he spent three years with the Milwaukee Braves organization before leaving professional baseball to pursue a writing career.
Time magazine praised
A False Spring, a memoir about his time in the minor leagues, as "one of the best and truest books about baseball and about coming to maturity in America," and
Sports Illustrated named it one of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. In the follow-up,
A Nice Tuesday, Jordan chronicles his unlikely return to the mound at the age of fifty-six. His numerous other books include the sports anthologies
The Suitors of Spring,
Broken Patterns, and
The Best Sports Writing of Pat Jordan, and the crime novels
a.k.a. Sheila Doyle and
a.k.a. Sheila Weinstein.
Content
- Cover Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Epilogue
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
