I Should Have Quit This Morning, Kathy Diekroeger
I Should Have Quit This Morning, Kathy Diekroeger
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I Should Have Quit This Morning
Adventures in Minor League Baseball

Author: Kathy Diekroeger

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/17/2020


Synopsis

The road to Major League baseball goes through the minor leagues. Every year there are over 5,500 players trying to work their way to the top of the tiered minor league system. Very few people know what life is really like for these aspiring players—until now. This collection of stories from actual minor league players is a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest account of the struggle to make it to the big leagues. In this book, you will learn:

● How it feels to be the first pick in the MLB draft (“everyone started screaming”) and how it feels for a player to not hear his name called at all (“Three days came and went and I didn’t get picked.”)

● What Spring Training is like for minor leaguers (“The difference between big league camp and minor league camp is night and day.”)

● Where players live and how they eat (“I became a pro at cooking in the ‘kitchen bathroom’ in the hotel.”)

● What it’s like to get promoted, demoted and traded (“It was the first time I actually cried when someone got moved or traded.”)

● What it’s like when players get the ultimate call up to the Major Leagues (“It was still during the game and everyone was like, ‘Dude, go call your parents or something.”)

And so much more!

About Kathy Diekroeger

Kathy Diekroeger lives in Woodside, CA with her husband Ken and her three sons Kenny, Danny and Mikey (and their dog Sky). She holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Kathy has watched her three sons play over 2,100 baseball games. She stopped counting when two of them made it to professional baseball. After hearing stories about minor league life for four years, she felt compelled to document and share those experiences with anyone who considers themselves a fan of baseball.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay

I have enjoyed a number of books on the minor leagues of baseball over the years. I find the hopes and promise of lightly tested players matched against each other to learn while competing for limited openings at a higher level leads to many compelling stories. I also appreciate that the minors ofte......more

Goodreads review by Russ

More like a 2.5 stars but an often enjoyable but more often repetitive look at life in baseball's minor leagues. The author takes a look at the careers of 16 young men who played with her sons either at Stanford or the minor leagues. Starting with the draft to, in most cases, retirement or release,......more