The (Short-Lived) Life of a Rookie, 1971

[In 1958, writer George Plimpton took the mound at New York’s Yankee Stadium to pitch to the National League All-Stars before a post-season exhibition game. Earnest Hemingway characterized the bangs and kabooms that followed as “the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty” But Plimpton turned his shellshock into the best-selling book Out of My League. Pli…