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Pedro Martinez: Born to Pitch

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You were never in doubt who was in charge when Pedro Martinez took to the mound for the Boston Red Sox. A review of his memoir in the WSJ:

In “Pedro,” Mr. Martinez’s memoir written with longtime Boston Herald baseball writerMichael Silverman, we learn that Mr. Martinez was fueled by rage. He hated the many scouts, managers and coaches who thought he was too small to be a starting pitcher, like Tommy Lasorda, whose Dodgers traded Mr. Martinez to the Montreal Expos in 1993. He despised coaches with rigid beliefs and anyone who required him to be punctual. (Expos pitching coach and eventual Red Sox manager Joe Kerrigan, who takes a heap of abuse from Mr. Martinez, suffered from both flaws.) “I was a born snapper,” Mr. Martinez writes. “There was nobody angrier than I was.”

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