Dick Bosman on Pitching: Lessons from the Life of a Major League Ballplayer and Pitching Coach

by Ted Leavengood, Dick Bosman

Overview

This book tells the story of Dick Bosman’s career as a professional pitcher—primarily with the Washington Senators—and his work as a pitching coach. More than a straight biography, this book includes bits of wisdom and advice from Bosman that will interest and help young players, coaches, and fans as they read about his life and career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538106617
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/08/2018
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Ted Leavengood is the managing editor of the baseball blog seamheads.com and hosted a podcast for the site for three years. He has written for Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), Elysian Fields Quarterly, and the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR). Leavengood is the author of The 2005 Washington Nationals: Major League Baseball Returns to the Capital (2006), Ted Williams and the 1969 Senators: The Last Winning Season (2009), and Clark Griffith: The Old Fox of Washington Baseball (2011). Dick Bosman was a professional pitcher with the Washington Senators from 1966 to 1971. He continued his career with the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, and Oakland Athletics until 1976. Bosman was also the Major League pitching coach for the Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Texas Rangers. Since 2001 he has worked at various levels for the Tampa Bay Rays and currently serves them as a minor league pitching coordinator.

Editorial Reviews

Dick Bosman has led one of the most spectacularly underrated baseball lives in the history of the game. From its beginnings on a farm in Kenosha, Wis., to a productive stint on the mound during baseball’s most glamorous era to an innovative and ongoing tenure as a pitching coach, this career is more than book-worthy. Long-time D.C. baseball expert and author Ted Leavengood thoroughly details Bosman’s journey, not only focusing on his career but on Bosman’s passion, the art of pitching.

Dave Marran

Dick Bosman was a very good pitcher and a great pitching coach; he has taught me so much about the art of pitching. He also knows about golf and cars and kids. It’s all in this book. I loved it.

Tim Kurkjian

A true professor of pitching, Boz has a natural gift for teaching, whether it's educating a genuine prospect or an aging broadcaster. He's certainly impacted my baseball knowledge in a positive way.

Phil Wood

Follow the ideas detailed in this book and you are well on your way to understanding what it takes to pitch at the highest level. One of the reasons that every generation gets better than the one before is because people like Dick Bosman share with the world what they have learned from their experiences.

Bob Rotella

Long known to baseball insiders as a pitcher’s pitcher, Dick Bosman now shares his thoughtful insights with a wider audience. A must-read for not only baseball fans but any reader wanting to understand better the complicated, demanding yet beautiful game of baseball.

Lee Lowenfish

Dick Bosman's life in baseball has endured so long because of his love of the game, the fact that he's better at it than most, and has an innate knowledge and understanding of its intricacies he’s happy to pass along. That’s Dick Bosman in a nutshell, and in Dick Bosman on Pitching, Ted Leavengood pulls back the curtain and shows readers how Bosman grew his love of the game into a career, reinventing himself along the way and paying it forward as he helped the next generation learn and appreciate baseball the way he has.

Pete Kerzel