Out of My League: The Classic Hilarious Account of an Amateur’s Ordeal in Professional Baseball Audiobook (Free)

The baseball classic that Ernest Hemingway called ‘beautifully observed and incredibly conceived,’ now recorded and including a foreword from Jane Leavy.

The first of Plimpton’s remarkable forays into participatory journalism, OUT OF MY LEAGUE chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens whenever a self-professed amateur gets the chance to answer every fan’s question: could he strike out a significant league star?

Plimpton’s inspired idea–to can get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars from the American and Country wide Leagues–begins being a fun-filled stunt and involves a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. This honest and amusing tale features Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, and other baseball greats and it is ‘a baseball book such as for example nobody else ever wrote, and one of the best ever.’ –New York Herald Tribune