From the spark of ambition to play baseball professionally to the
necessity of reinventing life after baseball, the anthropologist
and former Minor Leaguer George Gmelch describes the lives of the
men who work at America's national game.
Twenty-four years after his own final road trip as a minor
leaguer, Gmelch went back on the road with ballplayers, this time
with a pen and pad to record the details of life around the
diamond. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with Major and
Minor League players, coaches, and managers, Gmelch explores
players' experiences throughout their careers: being scouted,
becoming a rookie, moving through or staying in the Minors,
preparing mentally and physically to play day after day, coping
with slumps and successes, and facing retirement. He examines the
ballplayers' routines and rituals, describes their joys and
frustrations, and investigates the roles of wives, fans, and
groupies in their lives. Based on his own experience as a player in
the 1960s, Gmelch charts the life cycle of the modern professional
ballplayer and makes perceptive comparisons to a previous
generation of players.
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