"This book provides practical strategies for developing the mental skills which help speed you to your full potential."---Dave Winfield

What does it mean to play heads-up baseball? A heads-up player has confidence in his ability, keeps control in pressure situations, and focuses on one pitch at a time. His mental skills enable him to play consistently at or near his best despite the adversity baseball presents each day.

"My ability to fully focus on what I had to do on a daily basis was what made me the successful player I was. Sure I had some natural ability, but that only gets you so far. I think I learned how to focus; it wasn't something that I was necessarily born with." -- Hank Aaron

"Developing and refining my mental game has played a critical role in my success in baseball. For years players have had to develop these skills on their own. This book provides practical strategies for developing the mental skills that will help speed you toward your full potential." -- Dave Winfield

"A Book in the Dialect of Northern Minnesota" is written to express what and how I feel about life around me. I got the title from John Keats' book, "A Book in the Dialect of the Lakes Country," that I read in my early twenties. After thirty plus years of writing, I decided to publish what was salvageable from about 1000 pages of manuscript. My publisher wants me to highlight my credentials as a writer, so I will say my highest credential is that I love God, and in his name, Jesus, I dedicate this book. What I have written has been an on-going process for most of my fifty-two years on earth, and I am thankful to be able to share some of my thoughts with my readers. My influences as a writer were the world and the people that God created, but mainly God Himself. Jesus alone is my credential as a writer and, of course, any and all imperfections in my writing are mine and not His.