Big Don Newcombe: Fastballs, Highballs and the Long Road Back

As a teenager, Don Newcombe was an unemployed high school dropout with few prospects. From those unglamorous beginnings, he led an extraordinary life of accomplishment and celebrity as a star pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers—though not without his fair share of failure and despair. This book is the first biography of Don Newcombe, recounting all the good, the bad and the ugly of his several careers, and the esteem he earned. With little formal baseball training, Newcombe became a pitcher fo...