Joe Herpin

Take Two and Hit to Right: Story of a Boy's Dream to Play Pro Baseball Joe Herpin

Publisher Marketing: Joe Herpin writes about his great love the game of baseball and his childhood dream. After seeing, at six years of age, New York Yankee great Joe Dimaggio play an exhibition game in Memphis, Tennessee, he decided, more than anything, he wanted to be a professional baseball player. As a small boy in bed at night he often day-dreamed about wearing a real baseball uniform, playing on a real baseball diamond and when grown becoming a professional baseball player. Personal highlights and pittfalls of his development from a youngster throwing a tennis ball against the garage door to simulate pitchinf in a game to becoming a high school baseball and football All -State selection in Geogia. The thrill of signing a bonus contract with the Philadelphia Phllies, and his best remembered experiences of playing in small towns in six different minor leagues are vividly described. "Take Two and Hit to Right," gives you incite into the travails of ball players on minor league clubs. You will discover how Joe perseveres, chasing his childhood dream, as the story moves him along the bumpy road that professional baseball players traveled when playing in the minor leagues in the 1950s. On May 5, 2008, Joe Herpin was inducted into the Greater Savannah Athletic Hall of Fame.