Contents

Contents

Foreword by Carl Yastrzemski

1 Shutting Up Pete Rose

2 Señor Skinny

4 You Can’t Go Home Again

5 From the Bushes to the Bronx

6 Coming of Age in Cleveland

7 Poor Man’s McLain

8 Down and (Almost) Out

9 Twin Killings and Red Sox

10 Rebirth in Boston

11 Pudge and Me

12 Heart and Soul

13 Race and Reunion

14 The World is Watching

15 Damn Yankees

16 Over My Dead Body

17 Pinstripes and Plataneros

18 Finally, Back at Fenway

19 Home to Havana

Acknowledgments

About the Authors