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And to my three girls, Heather, Kristin, and Marilyn.

Bill Denehy

Here’s to my brother and sister, Robert and Wendy.

And to the other Golenbocks, Aunt Hazel and cousins Jeffrey, Susan, and Douglas.

Peter Golenbock

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

PART II

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE

TWENTY-TWO

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I’M BLIND, AND MY BELOVED BASEBALL HAS

The reason I’m blind is that during my five-year professional pitching career, team doctors prescribed fifty-seven cortisone shots for my aching shoulder. I didn’t know any better. This was before the dangers of cortisone were made public. I knew Sandy Koufax was taking them for his arm, and Sandy was my hero, so I figured what was good for Sandy was good for me. I found out years later that no one should take more than ten cortisone shots in a lifetime. I was later told that if you take more than ten shots in a lifetime, your corneas will grow weak and you risk going blind. I wish someone had said something back then.