Off-Season

by Eliot Asinof

Eliot Asinof's newest baseball hero left tiny Gandee, Missouri, as John Clyde Cagle Jr., a hard-throwing lefthander who had pitched a perfect game in high school. Now he returns in triumph as the legendary "Black Jack," superstar of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a stoic, menacing mound demon with a Fu Manchu moustache and a 106-mile-per-hour fastball.

In a nationally televised event that, like everything else in his life, is precisely orchestrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322978
• ISBN13: 9780809322978
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"