Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball

Where Nobody Knows Your Name: Life in the Minor Leagues of Baseball
ISBN-10
0307949583
ISBN-13
9780307949585
Category
Sports & Recreation
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2015-03-17
Publisher
Anchor Books
Author
John Feinstein

Description

A New York Times best-selling sportswriter takes readers deep within the secretive inner-workings of the minor leagues through the stories of eight men who are living on the cusp of the dream—some of who have tasted major league success and some of who have toiled for long careers. 100,000 first printing.

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