Bibliograph

They call me Oil Can, baseball, drugs, and life on the edge, Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd with Mike Shalin

Type

Label

They call me Oil Can, baseball, drugs, and life on the edge, Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd with Mike Shalin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

They call me Oil Can

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd with Mike Shalin

Sub title

baseball, drugs, and life on the edge

Summary

Speaking candidly to veteran sportswriter Mike Shalin for the first time about his often tumultuous career in Major League Baseball, Dennis Oil Can Boyd recounts a life that began in the Deep South ofMississippi, and the events that led him toward great heights atop the pitchers mound at Fenway Park. As part of a stellar rotation alongside Bruce Hurst and a young Roger Clemens, Boyd served a dazzling array of pitches to opposing batters, most notably during the Boston Red Sox ill-fated 1986 World Series run against the New York Mets, and while he was at once brilliant and focusedon the mound, off the fieldas he affectingly reveals hereBoyd was unraveled by the personal battles he waged with substance abuse and destructive mood swings. As one of the few African American starting pitchers in the history of baseball, Boyd offers a candid, insightful, and often funny portrait of an athlete with boundless passion for the game, his teammates, and the Boston Red Sox

Target audience

adult

Classification