This is a journal basically kept by a career minor leaguer Steve Fireovid during a season when he was 32 still pitching in the minors trying to get back to the majors. He did have some time in the major leagues 3 different years but he starts off with thinking this could be his last year. He talks a lot about his family--he is married with 2 boys & wife is expecting and how baseball season & travel keeps him from a normal family life. A good inside look at the life of an older minor league baseball player. He did stick around for 3 more years after this & even broke spring training with the Texas Rangers and pitched some again in the majors a couple years after this book. I am interested to know what he ended up doing. He had some offers of coaching but I don't see anything where he took that up. I am not going to delve too far into, more of a just wondering thing.
At this point I am putting this on my keepers with the Baseball Gods book about baseball cards. I do have a Steve Fireovid card somewhere too--I just need to dig out all of my old cards & look.
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