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A Nice Tuesday

Pat Jordan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Published:1st Sep '05

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When a fifty-six-year old Jordan realizes that his failure to reach the majors defines his life, he decides to make a comeback.

Chronicles the author's decision to reclaim the failed potential of his youth.In A Nice Tuesday, Pat Jordan chronicles his decision to reclaim the failed potential of his youth. A young baseball pitcher of inordinate promise, Jordan had been one of the Milwaukee Braves first “bonus babies.” His struggle through the minor leagues and ultimate failure to play in the majors, eloquently chronicled in A False Spring, defined his youth. At fifty-six, Jordan realizes that “this trivial thing” has also defined his life and decides to make a comeback. He whips himself back into playing condition and convinces an independent minor-league team, the Waterbury (Connecticut) Spirit, to let him return to the mound one last time. In this memoir, Jordan lays bare his midlife quest with honesty and humor, making A Nice Tuesday about much more than baseball.

"Pat Jordan, the author of my favorite baseball book, A False Spring, has written the ultimate comeback story—a failed ballplayer and father reconstitutes himself as a loving husband and a helluva writer. Funny, sweet, and painfully honest, Jordan writes like he’s been injected with truth serum. A Nice Tuesday reads like an unauthorized autobiography. Jordan, the big league writer, will be remembered far longer than most of the big league ballplayers he aspired to join."—Jim Bouton, author of Ball Four
"Heartily recommended."—Library Journal

ISBN: 9780803276253

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 386g

342 pages