It won the CASEY Award for best baseball book of 1989 and was selected as a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year."
Mike Sowell's book has been optioned by Come Aboard Productions. The production company is in development on a feature film based on the story from ""The Pitch That Killed.""
Famous quotes containing the words pitch and/or killed:
“I cant earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. Its like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, shavings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)
“You killed me, Margo. Im not taking the rap for you.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)