Publisher's Synopsis
"In 1942, Pete Reiser was on the road to baseball superstardom. Then, he crashed into a wall-an unpadded, concrete outfield wall as he tried to make a game-saving catch. And for Pete, nothing was ever the same. A year earlier, at age 22, he had won a batting title, a rookie of the year award and a pennant with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sportswriters could not stop marveling at his skill set, highlighted by a keen batting eye, a rifle throwing arm and speed that whisked him from home to first in three-point-six seconds. Baseball men compared him to some of the game's all-time greats, including Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio. The crash shunted Pete onto a rockier path, one marked by headaches, hard luck, mismanagement, and sadly, more collisions with outfield walls. He'd enjoy scattered triumphs on this road too, and win a place in baseball history as the man who spurred teams to install warning tracks and pad the walls. But to this day, students o
