A Hall of Fame owner.
A cellar-dweller turned powerhouse.
And a clubhouse attendant with a secret dream.
Read the book critics and fans are calling the Ball Four of minor league baseball.
From the back cover:
As the new clubhouse attendant for the Aberdeen IronBirds, I assumed I’d entered a familiar world. I thought wrong.
I quickly discovered the bizarre rituals of life in the Minors:
Fights between players.
Teammates quitting in the middle of games.
Doomed relationships.
And a negligent parent organization.
All the while, I harbored a secret wish: despite the team’s struggles and my own lack of baseball talent, I yearned to join the exclusive fraternity of professional ballplayers…
…even if chasing my dream might cost me my girlfriend, my future, and, ultimately, my love of the game.
That is, until an unlikely shot at a championship gave me and the IronBirds one final swing at redemption.
What Readers Think of Clubbie
“It’s easy to romanticize baseball. But from the inside, in the trenches of the Minor Leagues, the game is not so pure. With an excellent eye for detail, Greg Larson captures every tobacco stain and dirty sock in this memoir of life as a clubhouse attendant. It’s a well-written, heartfelt chronicle of growing up in a game that doesn’t want to.”
—Brad Balukjian, author of the Los Angeles Times best seller The Wax Pack