You don't have to know a lot about baseball to love this book Filled with humor and heartwarming nostalgia for a time when the local sandlot was the stage where dreams were born and built, I Weren't Always a Pitcher becomes a metaphor for any dream of success anyone has ever had. Jackson Grady's journey as a minor-league player is magical-a great story, well-told and fun to read. I loved it and so will you and your family and friends.--Barbara Kuroff A Kentucky farm boy moves to the Southside of Chicago with his parents. At age 10 he discovers baseball and at 16 joins a mens barnstorming...