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That spring and summer Wolff played for the Detroit-affiliated Anderson, South Carolina team in the Class "A" Western Carolina league, before returning to Harvard in September for a semester to earn his magna cum laude in Psychology...
...Wolff then reported to Lakeland in February again, only this time he played a season for the Clinton, Iowa Tiger farm club in the Class "A" Midwestern League...
What's a Nice Boy Like You Doing in the Bushes is Wolff's daily chronicle of his two years in the minors. It's one of those nice, easy-to-read, amusing sports biographies that doesn't try to define baseball vis-a-vis life...
...publishers thought it would be better if I addressed the book to a younger group," Wolff admits, "to kids in high school who might be thinking of going into baseball. It basically tries to be entertaining...
...book is at its best when it describes life in the bushes. Wolff brings us to the eal heartland of America, the small, rural cities and towns that comprise minor leagues. The setting is right out of the 20s, with the ballpark just down the street from the fans' homes and freight trains passing just beyond the outfield fences. He takes us to a simpler, more remote era, when baseball really was the national pastime...