the cover of Odd Man Out: A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit

Odd Man Out:
A Year on the Mound with a Minor League Misfit

by Matt McCarthy
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Pub. Date: February 2009
  • ISBN-13: 9780670020706
  • Hardcover: 309p

Matt McCarthy always knew he was a pretty good pitcher. In high school, he played for one of the best teams in Florida, made All-State, and was offered a scholarship to play for the baseball team at Yale. After four years of playing college ball with a truly awful Yale baseball team, Matt was ready to pack it in and start his post-college life in the field of his studies: molecular biophysics and biochemistry. That all changed with one phone call informing Matt that he had been drafted by the Anaheim Angels. Read More