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What if Studs Terkel wrote a book with Bill James? You'd have a book on what it's really like to make a living in the world of baseball. For everyone who ever dreamed of making their love of baseball into their vocation, Working at the Ballpark will provide a view at their lives that might have been, with interviews with more than 50 people who make a living in major league baseball. Each is asked the same questions: What is your job? How did you get into this line of work? What does this job mean to you? From peanut vendors and equipment managers to general managers and star players, from John Guilfoy, who sells sausages at Fenway, to Chris Hanson, who plays "Bernie Brewer" in Milwaukee, to Omar Vizquel, who anchors the infield at AT&T Park, this is an insider's perspective on the enormous scope of the game.

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Tom Jones is a lifelong baseball fanatic. This is his first book. He lives in Sacramento, California.
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For his first book, baseball fan Jones has collected 51 interviews he conducted during the 2006 and 2007 baseball seasons. Presented in a q&a format preceded by short bios, the interviews cover all the bases: owners, general managers, managers, coaches, players, umpires, media, vendors and ushers. The talks are fairly uniform, as speakers discuss how they reached their current positions, what their jobs entail and what it means to them to work in baseball. Many of the players and execs play it pretty close to the vest, but a few recognizable names open up to Jones. For example, MLB's VP for on-field operations, Bob Watson, chats candidly about a host of colorful topics including how the Yankees overpaid when they traded for Chuck Knoblauch, who could have been had for, maybe not a broken bat, but a good bat. But it's the small nuggets of information that epitomize this book: how much does a ballboy make? what's Omar Vizquel's preferred bat? where does Boston's Sausage Guy go to the bathroom? As Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan writes in the book's foreword, just skip through the pages and find someone that interests you. (May)
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  • PublisherSkyhorse
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 1602392269
  • ISBN 13 9781602392267
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