Nine Bucks a Pound
by James Bailey
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Pub Date Feb 20 2014 | Archive Date Jul 10 2014
Description
For every A-Rod or Manny Ramirez seeking to
boost his game to elite levels via illegal means, there have been scores of
unheralded players toiling in the minor leagues, desperate to impress the brass
enough to simply survive and advance. Young men who have dreamed of playing in
the big leagues since they were old enough to swing a bat. When their natural
ability alone isn't enough, the black and white blurs to gray, their fear of
getting caught using banned substances outweighed by a more consuming fear of failure.
Three seasons into his professional career, Del Tanner can read the writing on
the wall. A contact hitter at a power position, he recognizes his days in the
Twins organization are numbered if he can't match the production of the other
first basemen in the system. When his aspiring agent suggests he try steroids,
Del makes a choice that will shadow him for the rest of his career.
In his second novel, James Bailey (The Greatest Show on Dirt, 2012)
humanizes the players fans are so often quick to demonize. Nine Bucks a
Pound ponders life on baseball's fringe and the dreams that tempt a young
man to heed the devil on his shoulder. ESPN.com's Jayson Stark says,
"Bailey hasn't just given us a great read. He's given us an important
window into a topic we can't seem to stop talking about." Adds Russell
Rowland, author of High and Inside, "Bailey expertly explores how
the desire to succeed at any price can lead to unexpected consequences, mostly
involving a man's relationships with others, not to mention with his own conscience.
This is a powerful story about the perils of success at any price."
Advance Praise
"Almost everything that's been written
about PEDs and baseball reads like either a chemistry textbook or a morality
play. So I can't tell you how refreshing it was to immerse myself in a book
that actually tells the human side of this story. James Bailey hasn't just
given us a great read. He's given us an important window into a topic we can't
seem to stop talking about." -JAYSON STARK, senior baseball writer,
ESPN.com
"Nine Bucks a Pound is a timely novel, the story of Del Tanner, a
minor league baseball player whose inability to break into the majors leads him
to experiment with performance enhancers, just to see whether it will take him
to that next level. James Bailey expertly explores how the desire to succeed at
any price can lead to unexpected consequences, mostly involving a man's
relationships with others, not to mention with his own conscience. This is a
powerful story about the perils of success at any price." -RUSSELL
ROWLAND, author of High and Inside
"For most outside of baseball, the PEDs issue is black-and-white. Players
who use PEDs are bad, those who don't are good. James Bailey puts a human face
on the players tempted to give their game some artificial help. He's not
endorsing PEDs, just giving us a vision of why some players may choose to do
them. Even beyond that, this is a hard-to-put-down, first-rate baseball story
about characters who step off the page and seem very much like living,
breathing, flesh-and-blood human beings." -JOSEPH SCHUSTER, author of The
Might Have Been
"Bailey's first effort, The Greatest Show on Dirt in 2012, was
worth taking a chance based on our respect for the depth of story lines from
the minor-league game that he lived through, and we enjoyed giving the first-time
author some swings in the cage. With Nine Bucks, Bailey has hit it on
the screws again." -Los Angeles Daily News
"Bailey's second novel mixes baseball, romantic tension and testosterone
into a satisfying cocktail of prose. It bubbles and percolates with action and
tension." - The Tampa Tribune
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781310006760 |
| PRICE | $2.99 (USD) |
