Just Tell Me I Can't: How Jamie Moyer Defied the Radar Gun and Defeated Time [Hardcover]

The extraordinary and surprising memoir of Jamie Moyer, who at age forty-nine became the oldest pitcher to ever win a game in the major leagues.

Long-time fans of the National Pastime have known Moyer's name for more than twenty-five years. That's because he's been pitching in the bigs for all those years.

With his trademark three pitches: slow, slower, and slowest, the left-handed Moyer is a pinpoint specialist whose won-lost record actually got better as he got older. He's only a few wins shy of three-hundred for his amazing career.

Moyer was just about finished as a big leaguer in his mid-twenties when he fatefully encountered a gravel-voiced, highly confrontational sports psychologist named Harvey Dorfman. Listening to the "in-your-face" insights of Dorfman, Moyer began to re-invent himself and reconstruct his approach to his game. 

Moyer went on to become an All-Star and also a World Series champion.

 Yogi Berra once observed that "Half of this game is 90% mental." And Moyer's memoir proves it. With his nearly singular combination of competitive will and pitching guile, it seemed as if Jamie Moyer's big league career would never end. Now that it finally has, I have only one regret: There goes the last active player whose IPod playlist might be similar to my own.

-- Bob Costas Just Tell Me I Can't has it all. It is loaded with grit and heart and soul. It is written with sweet smoothness and insight. It is also thelÃA