by Fergie Jenkins with Lew Freedman

Fergie Jenkins was the first Canadian in the baseball hall of fame. He spent his career with the Cubs, Rangers and Red Sox. The book sounds like Fergie talking – that’s it strength and weakness. He focuses on what he wants and ignores what he wants. So we focus on his pitching career, hunting, fishing, and coaching. He mentions his arrest for drug possession and the post playing tragedies he has endured.

Listen, I picked this signed copy up while in Cooperstown on vacation. In 1983, 7 year old me retrieved a Gary Woods hit foul ball during batting practice. And my Dad and I were able to get Fergie Jenkins to sign it. That was his last season in the majors and one of my favorite memories as a kid in Wrigley.

Like most sports autobiographies this hits the points Fergie wants to hit. And 7 year old me would have loved it. A more mature me loved the memories of my youth, but hopes that a proper biography is written one day.

206 pages

3/5