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Out of the Blue by Orel Hershiser
Leave it to one of the best pitchers in baseball to write the most unusual sports autobiography in years. The man Sport magazine calls the smartest pitcher in the big leagues, goes far beyond the action (of which there is plenty). The pure baseball is here, but that's not all. This is a book about family, about home, about love, about ambition, about determination, about faith.
If you are a die-hard, read-the-box-scores-every-day fan, you will get a dose of late-season and post-season action to last a lifetime, but the behind-the-scenes stuff--the things only an insider can tell you--are here, too. Orel Hershiser takes you into the clubhouse, the training room, the dugout, and onto the field.
He was in the clubhouse when manager Tommy Lasorda pumped up the troops after a crushing defeat, sending them out to even up the playoffs against the Mets.
He was in the bullpen in the twelfth innning of the fourth game of the playoffs in New York when the call came for his help in relief. Here was Hershiser. The ace. The previous day's starter. But the Mets were already up two games to one, and the Dodgers needed him for their biggest out of the year. He was in the TV room with Kirk Gibson when Gibby decided to get dressed and limp to the dugout, volunteering to make one attempt at baseball history in the last inning of the World Series opener. You get it all: what the Dodgers were thinking, what they were saying, how the team reacted to the most dramatic moments. You will hear Tommy Lasorda on motivation, on strategy, on the moves that put the Dodgers on top.
But, beyond the excitement and the drama, beyond the crowds and the tension, you get a rare glimpse of what it takes to pitch in the big leagues. Here is the most thoughtful treatment ever of The Pitch--an entire five-chapter section. The thinking man's pitcher, the most articulate baseball philosopher in the game today, lets you inside his head.
For many, Orel Hershiser appeared suddenly. Out of the blue. By the time the 1988 season was over, he had broken one of baseball's most enduring pitching records, won the Cy Young Award, was named Most Valuable Player in the playoffs and the World Series, was named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year, The Sporting News' Major League Player of the Year, and The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year.
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