Dirk Hayhurst is a terrific writer who tells a compelling story of professional baseball from the inside as a player climbing through the ranks to the ultimate goal, the major league. As an outsider to baseball, I was swept along by the book's fast paced but thorough depictions of job performance played out and measured in a public arena. Hayhurst wraps into his great gift of storytelling, his family life and finding balance to succeed in both areas. I loved this book!

Dirk Hayhurst is an amazing writer, giving you an insight into life in the minor and major leagues. It's not nearly as glamorous on the inside as it appears from the bleachers. His trying, humbling journey from the minors to the majors is chronicled with humor and self-deprication.