Matt McCarthy’s recently-published ODD MAN OUT, his “his salacious memoir of his summer as an obscure minor league pitcher,” is full of “wide-ranging errors and misquotations” according to the NYT. “Statistics from that season, transaction listings and interviews with his former teammates indicate that many portions of the book are incorrect, embellished or impossible.” Are they minor chronological errors and the complaints of those who are depicted in an unflattering light, or indications of a seriously flawed or even invented narrative? The newspaper clearly implies the latter–but would they have treated Ball Four the same way if it were published […]
