The Bullpen Gospels, Dirk Hayhurst
The Bullpen Gospels, Dirk Hayhurst
List: $19.95 | Sale: $13.97
Club: $9.97

The Bullpen Gospels
Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran

Author: Dirk Hayhurst

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/18/2010

Synopsis

Upon its release, The Bullpen Gospels was a direct hit to the New York Times bestseller list. With comparisons to Jim Boutonss Ball Four, The Bullpen Gospels is slated to be a classic of the genre.From the humble heights of a ClassA pitchers mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his guntoting grandmothers air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk Hayhurst steps out of the bullpen to deliver the best pitch of his careera raw and unflinching account of his life in the minors.Whether training tarantulas to protect his room from thieving employees in a backwater hotel or absorbing the gentle mockery of some notquitestarstruck schoolchildren, Hayhurst reveals a side of baseballand liferarely seen on ESPN.

About Dirk Hayhurst

Dirk Hayhurst, drafted from
Kent State University in 2003 as a senior sign, has pitched professionally for
seven seasons on seven minor-league teams, as well as for two big-league teams,
the San Diego Padres and the Toronto Blue Jays. Since 2007, he has blogged
about baseball for Baseball America. Born and raised in Canton, Ohio, he now
lives in Hudson, Ohio, with his wife, Bonnie.

Reviews

Goodreads review by TheBookWarren on October 10, 2021

5.00 Stars — A good memoir can be a bit like Wine —Ageing gracefully & stoically and remaining timeless, surging from good to great, or — as is most often the case — become dated, irrelevant encoding irreverence . This Memoir, offers me a very strong indication of being the most former, it has a tim......more

Goodreads review by Tim The Enchanter on February 03, 2014

What baseball fan hasn't dreamed of what it would be like to play in the Big Leagues or imagined themselves in their teams home colours playing in front of thousand of friends, family and fans. For the vast majority of us, this dream was never closer than our own mind. The Bullpen Gospels provides a......more

Goodreads review by Seb on February 21, 2025

"What's the book about? It's about one season in the minors. It's about baseball. Maybe it would be better to say it's about what baseball isn't." That was something...! I picked this book up on a whim. I started a kind of reading slump and it came across my path. Boy was I lucky! Not only did this bo......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on April 17, 2017

A scant handful of interesting, poignant, or amusing anecdotes sandwiched between endless chapters of explosive diarrhea, sophomoric frat humor, and misogynistic behavior. Coming from a self-pronounced teetotal-ling virgin you'd hope to hear these incidents recapped with at least a few frowns betwee......more

Goodreads review by Jay on March 17, 2016

Hayhurst is a long reliever in his fifth year in the minors, sent back to A ball after having seen AAA for a few games the previous year. This is his story about that year, working his way back up the baseball path. He bookends the stories about his baseball life that year with some stories about hi......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List