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My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball
Blue Rider Press
April 2012
On Sale: March 29, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 0399158154
EAN: 9780399158155
Kindle: B005HN2080
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R.A.
Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this
memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues. An English Lit major at the University of Tennessee, Dickey
is as articulate and thoughtful as any professional athlete
in any sport-and proves it page after page, as he provides
fresh and honest insight into baseball and a career unlike
any other. Fourteen years ago, Dickey was a heralded No. 1
draft choice of the Texas Rangers, only to have an $810,000
signing bonus, and his lifelong dream, ripped away by an X-
ray-and the discovery that he did not have an ulna
collateral ligament in his right elbow. Five years ago, he
gave up a record six home runs in three innings to the
Detroit Tigers-and was effectively consigned to the baseball
scrap heap. Sustained by his profound Christian faith, the love of his
wife and children, and a relentless quest for self-awareness
and authenticity, the immensely likable Dickey details his
transformation from a reckless, risk-taking loner to a
grounded, life- affirming big leaguer. He emerged as one of
the premier pitchers in the National League in 2010-and the
knuckleballing embodiment of the wonders that perseverance
and human wisdom can produce. Dickey views his story as one
of redemption. Readers will come to see it as something
more-a uniquely American story of beating back demons,
listening to your heart, and overcoming extraordinary odds.
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