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:
“He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in his mind before the first witness was called. It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who to intimidate; who to trust, who to flatter and court; who to challenge; when to underplay and exactly when to let out all the stops.”
—Dorothy Uhnak (b. 1933)
“Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”
—R.D. (Ronald David)