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Dick Bosman’s career in Major League Baseball as a player and coach has spanned more than 50 years. He pitched eleven seasons in the American League, was the Major League pitching coach for multiple teams, and has served as a minor league pitching coordinator for the Tampa Bay Rays since 2001. Throughout his years in baseball, Bosman has developed a distinct pitching philosophy and astute insights into the cat-and-mouse game between hitter and pitcher. In Dick Bosman on Pitching: Lessons from the Life of a Major League Ballplayer and Pitching Coach, author Ted Leavengood examines Bosman’s life in baseball, from his winning the ERA title in the American League in 1969 and his no-hitter in 1974 to his current coaching position with the Tampa Bay Rays. For those wanting an inside look at the essentials of pitching, Leavengood includes insights and tips from Bosman throughout the book, compiled through hours of personal interviews. Bosman has worked for and with some of the best pitchers and coaches in major league baseball, and he not only shares stories from their time together but also the many things he learned from them about the game. Dick Bosman has found enormous success working with young ballplayers at all levels and fostered innovations—such as his signature slide step—that have impacted pitching in today’s game. With personal anecdotes from Bosman, his teammates, and those he coached, Dick Bosman on Pitching will entertain and inform young pitchers as well as baseball fans of all generations.

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A true professor of pitching, Boz has a natural gift for teaching, whether it's educating a genuine prospect or an aging broadcaster. He's certainly impacted my baseball knowledge in a positive way. -- Phil Wood, host, Nationals Talk Live, and commentator on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network Dick Bosman was a very good pitcher and a great pitching coach; he has taught me so much about the art of pitching. He also knows about golf and cars and kids. It's all in this book. I loved it. -- Tim Kurkjian, ESPN Dick Bosman's life in baseball has endured so long because of his love of the game, the fact that he's better at it than most, and has an innate knowledge and understanding of its intricacies he's happy to pass along. That's Dick Bosman in a nutshell, and in Dick Bosman on Pitching, Ted Leavengood pulls back the curtain and shows readers how Bosman grew his love of the game into a career, reinventing himself along the way and paying it forward as he helped the next generation learn and appreciate baseball the way he has. -- Pete Kerzel, managing editor, MASNsports.com Dick Bosman has led one of the most spectacularly underrated baseball lives in the history of the game. From its beginnings on a farm in Kenosha, Wis., to a productive stint on the mound during baseball's most glamorous era to an innovative and ongoing tenure as a pitching coach, this career is more than book-worthy. Long-time D.C. baseball expert and author Ted Leavengood thoroughly details Bosman's journey, not only focusing on his career but on Bosman's passion, the art of pitching. -- Dave Marran, retired sports editor, The Kenosha News

A true professor of pitching, Boz has a natural gift for teaching, whether it's educating a genuine prospect or an aging broadcaster. He's certainly impacted my baseball knowledge in a positive way. -- Phil Wood, host, Nationals Talk Live, and commentator on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network Dick Bosman was a very good pitcher and a great pitching coach; he has taught me so much about the art of pitching. He also knows about golf and cars and kids. It's all in this book. I loved it. -- Tim Kurkjian, ESPN Dick Bosman's life in baseball has endured so long because of his love of the game, the fact that he's better at it than most, and has an innate knowledge and understanding of its intricacies he's happy to pass along. That's Dick Bosman in a nutshell, and in Dick Bosman on Pitching, Ted Leavengood pulls back the curtain and shows readers how Bosman grew his love of the game into a career, reinventing himself along the way and paying it forward as he helped the next generation learn and appreciate baseball the way he has. -- Pete Kerzel, managing editor, MASNsports.com Dick Bosman has led one of the most spectacularly underrated baseball lives in the history of the game. From its beginnings on a farm in Kenosha, Wis., to a productive stint on the mound during baseball's most glamorous era to an innovative and ongoing tenure as a pitching coach, this career is more than book-worthy. Long-time D.C. baseball expert and author Ted Leavengood thoroughly details Bosman's journey, not only focusing on his career but on Bosman's passion, the art of pitching. -- Dave Marran, retired sports editor, The Kenosha News Long known to baseball insiders as a pitcher's pitcher, Dick Bosman now shares his thoughtful insights with a wider audience. A must-read for not only baseball fans but any reader wanting to understand better the complicated, demanding yet beautiful game of baseball. -- Lee Lowenfish, author of the award-winning biography Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman and collaborator with Tom Seaver on The Art of Pitching Follow the ideas detailed in this book and you are well on your way to understanding what it takes to pitch at the highest level. One of the reasons that every generation gets better than the one before is because people like Dick Bosman share with the world what they have learned from their experiences. -- Bob Rotella, sports psychologist and author of Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

A true professor of pitching, Boz has a natural gift for teaching, whether it's educating a genuine prospect or an aging broadcaster. He's certainly impacted my baseball knowledge in a positive way. -- Phil Wood, host, Nationals Talk Live, and commentator on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network Dick Bosman was a very good pitcher and a great pitching coach; he has taught me so much about the art of pitching. He also knows about golf and cars and kids. It's all in this book. I loved it. -- Tim Kurkjian, ESPN's Baseball Tonight Dick Bosman's life in baseball has endured so long because of his love of the game, the fact that he's better at it than most, and has an innate knowledge and understanding of its intricacies he's happy to pass along. That's Dick Bosman in a nutshell, and in Dick Bosman on Pitching, Ted Leavengood pulls back the curtain and shows readers how Bosman grew his love of the game into a career, reinventing himself along the way and paying it forward as he helped the next generation learn and appreciate baseball the way he has. -- Pete Kerzel, managing editor, MASNsports.com Dick Bosman has led one of the most spectacularly underrated baseball lives in the history of the game. From its beginnings on a farm in Kenosha, Wis., to a productive stint on the mound during baseball's most glamorous era to an innovative and ongoing tenure as a pitching coach, this career is more than book-worthy. Long-time D.C. baseball expert and author Ted Leavengood thoroughly details Bosman's journey, not only focusing on his career but on Bosman's passion, the art of pitching. -- Dave Marran, retired sports editor, The Kenosha News Long known to baseball insiders as a pitcher's pitcher, Dick Bosman now shares his thoughtful insights with a wider audience. A must-read for not only baseball fans but any reader wanting to understand better the complicated, demanding yet beautiful game of baseball. -- Lee Lowenfish, author of the award-winning biography Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman and collaborator with Tom Seaver on The Art of Pitching Follow the ideas detailed in this book and you are well on your way to understanding what it takes to pitch at the highest level. One of the reasons that every generation gets better than the one before is because people like Dick Bosman share with the world what they have learned from their experiences. -- Bob Rotella, sports psychologist and author of Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

Author Information

Ted Leavengood is the managing editor of the baseball blog seamheads.com and hosted a podcast for the site for three years. He has written for Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), Elysian Fields Quarterly, and the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR). Leavengood is the author of The 2005 Washington Nationals: Major League Baseball Returns to the Capital (2006), Ted Williams and the 1969 Senators: The Last Winning Season (2009), and Clark Griffith: The Old Fox of Washington Baseball (2011). Dick Bosman was a professional pitcher with the Washington Senators from 1966 to 1971. He continued his career with the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, and Oakland Athletics until 1976. Bosman was also the Major League pitching coach for the Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, and Texas Rangers. Since 2001 he has worked at various levels for the Tampa Bay Rays and currently serves them as a minor league pitching coordinator.

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