The former first baseman in the Detroit Tigers farm system uses his own experience to describe the life cycle of professional baseball players from early ambition to reinventing themselves after their baseball career.
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George Gmelch is a former first baseman in the Detroit Tigers farm system and a professor of anthropology at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of nine books, including Baseball without Borders: The International Pastime (Nebraska 2006) and In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People (with J. J. Weiner), available in a Bison Books edition.
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