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Title: One-of-a-Kind Baseball-Pitcher-Poet
Review: I have bought and given many of these wonderful books to intelligent baseball fans: from my 8-year-old grandson to a 30something fantasy baseball fanatic to several Kansas Citians who remember "Quis." He was one-of-a-kind: a maverick pitcher with his unique "submarine sinker" and a poet who workshopped his poems at University of Missouri during the off-season. His poems run the gamut from athletic career ironies to his daughter's struggle with French to his creative reconstruction of the Lord's Prayer. They're laced with wit and compassion and insight. He died young of a brain tumor, a malady which had killed his own KC Royals coach and another player. No one was ever able to figure out why an unprecedented number of KC Royals of his era died of brain tumors. How I wish I could see him throw that nutty underhand pitch just one more time.
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