About The Books

Wild Pitch: A Memoir of Baseball, Booze, and the Beast Within shares the raw and honest journey of Jeff Grose. As a boy, hurt by an alcoholic father, Jeff recalls, “I loved to see anything other than me feel pain.” Baseball becomes both his escape and his battlefield. “I walked the four blocks from our house to the field,” he remembers, chasing a dream alone. His life becomes a wild pitch, uncontrolled and dangerous. As he rises through the Mets’ organization, the "beast within" grows stronger. After baseball, Jeff’s world spins out of control, “a drink in one hand and a bag of cocaine in the other”, until he learns that life, like baseball, is a game of second chances. “You either win or you learn,” and Jeff finally learns.