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Author Ankiel, Rick.

Title The phenomenon : pressure, the yips, and the pitch that changed my life / Rick Ankiel and Tim Brown.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO ANKIEL    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B ANKIEL R.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  796.357 ANKIEL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  B ANKIEL, RICK    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  B ANKIEL, RICK    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.357 ANK    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  796.357 ANKIEL    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  796.357 ANK    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B ANKIEL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B ANKIEL    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 292 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "On October 3, 2000, 21-year-old pitcher Rick Ankiel took the mound for the St. Louis Cardinals in Game One of the National League division series. All was going well until Ankiel, who'd been lauded as the next Bob Gibson, threw a pitch that missed the mitt--wildly. Then he threw another. Then another, five in all. Slowly at first, then rapidly, his once-impenetrable pitcher's psyche crumbled. He would forever look back on that day as the day the unwelcome, inexplicable Phenomenon arrived. In this book, written with veteran sports journalist Tim Brown, Rick Ankiel tells the story of his personal battle with an anxiety condition widely known as the Yips, the courageous soul-searching that followed, and his eventual triumph over the demons in his own mind to reenter the game. For the next four and a half years after that day in October, Ankiel fought the Yips with every bow in his quiver: psychotherapy, medication, deep breathing exercises, self-help books, and, eventually, vodka. Yet the cure eluded Ankiel, much as the clinical diagnosis eluded the physicians and psychotherapists who studied it. Forced not just to retire from baseball but to reconsider his whole life the age of 25, Ankiel made an amazing turnaround, returning to the major leagues, this time as a hitter. He played seven successful years in the majors, finally retiring in 2013. This book is the story of a once-in-a-generation talent, a man haunted by strange personal demons, and who found the strength to overcome them"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Ankiel, Rick.
Pitchers (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Performance anxiety.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- Essays & Writings.
SELF-HELP -- Motivational & Inspirational.
Baseball players. (OCoLC)fst00828007
Pitchers (Baseball) (OCoLC)fst01064892
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
Added Author Brown, Tim, 1962- author.
ISBN 9781610396868 (hardback)
1610396863 (hardback)
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