I have to say I absolutely love this book. A board member (I think it was Cardboard junkie) sent it to me a number of months back, and I've read it through all the way at least twice. It's a first edition copy. When I have a prolonged stay in the men's room, it often accompanies me there. He also sent me a '65 Bo Belinsky card. I'd never heard of either the book, or Belinsky before. Now they're both greatness.
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Herbie Plews is perhaps my favorite all-time second-rate ballplayer, just nosing out Chi Chi Olivo and Lou "The Nervous Greek" Skizas. There was something almost heroic about the stupefying mediocrity of his play, the polished indifference of his skills, which could, on occasion, move me almost to the brink of religious ebullience. It's no use trying to describe the feeling-- you'd really have to have been there to appreciate it.
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