In this text Jerry Klinkowitz maps out his personal journey through baseball and probes his fluctuating fortunes and those of his team as he evolves from a fan to a team executive, and to a writer writing about baseball.
Jerry Klinkowitz has spent the past twenty years as a minor league baseball owner, operator, and consultant. During the off-season he teaches at the University of Northern Iowa, where he has authored more than thirty books on contemporary fiction, culture, art, philosophy, jazz, and air combat. His work in sports literature includes the novel Basepaths, the story collection Short Season (selected as Best Baseball Book of 1988 by Sport magazine), and the anthology Writing Baseball.