Brian Eshleman’s Reviews > Pennant Race: The Classic Game-by-Game Account of a Championship Season, 1961 – The Legendary Pitcher's Candid Baseball Memoir > Status Update

"You have to take a lot of criticism in this game before you figure out what you can do, and what you can't do." James P Brosnan, Pennant Race

"Sunday morning is the popular time for church-going, prayer-making, and wishful thinking." James P. Brosnan, Penant Race

You've got to love a baseball-playing diarist who uses the word EXPIATION. Maybe there's room for a similar book, mine fiction, without drastic changes to my voice with all of its genuine order for five-dollar words. It's

"if I could focus my resentment on Murtaugh (the manager who left him all the All-Star team,) my depression might turn into a simple determination to rip him and the Pirate every time I faced them."

Pennant Race by Jim Brosnan

"There are managers for whom players like to play, others they like to defeat." – Pennant Race by James P. Brosnan

Although the weather was as cold as the seat of a grave-digger’s consciousness, our Florida-conditioned bats were still hot and we had ten hits by the end of the fourth inning.