How My Mother Accidentally Tossed Out My Entire Baseball-Card Collection: and Other Sports Stories

by Bob Mitchell

Bob Mitchell has been crazy about sports since he was five years old. The 46 rants, ruminations, and reminiscences collected here chronicle his many obsessions -- the genetics of hardball, the roots of rooting, and the hairiest-ever NBA player, to name a few.

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 29, 1999

About the author

Bob Mitchell’s memoir Time for a Heart-to-Heart is a reflection of his remarkably eclectic life experience. He has been a sports fanatic since birth and is also passionate about art, music, world literature, travel, food and wine, and dogs. He is the author of eleven published books, including a volume of essays, a collection of poems, five nonfiction books, and three novels about sports and the meaning of life. Bob studied at Williams, Columbia, and Harvard, where he received a PhD in French and Comparative Literature. He has had careers as a university French professor (Harvard, Purdue, Ohio State), a teaching tennis pro, an award-winning advertising creative director, a teacher of advertising and creative writing (New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem), and a novelist and has lived in seven states as well as Paris, Brittany, Angers, Besançon, London, Florence, Stockholm, Montreal, and Tel Aviv. He resides in Carlsbad, CA, with his wife, artist Susan Love. Visit his website at www.bobmitchellheart2heart.com.