This is baseball player Jim Abbott's memoir. Abbot was a lefty pitcher in the 1990s that pitched at Michigan and then the first Olympics that had baseball and pitched & won the gold medal game there. Then went the next Spring straight into the Angels starting rotation. Struggled as a young pitcher with no minor league time but was overall successful early on. Not a strikeout pitcher more of a weak contact type but lost some speed on his fastball and never really developed enough other pitches to make a long career. He is probably best known for not having a right hand, was born that way and had to learn how to field and throw with just his left hand. That in itself is pretty amazing and getting to the majors and the success he had is sort of just gravy. He really gets into his whole early childhood and struggles he had and successes and continues into the deep dive thoughts when he was in the majors. Book was written about 10 years or so after he was out of baseball, wish had some more about what he was doing since baseball but overall a really good interesting read.
I have posted it on PBS, it is the only copy but again no idea if will move or how long.
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