Baseball book help (An Innocent Man)

[Guest cooby]

I hope someone can help me.

I read a book this past few months (I'm terrible at titles) about a fellow who played in the Yankees farm system, and a couple of games in the Majors. Unfortunately he had a mental problem (bi-polar), made worse by heavy drinking.

He was accused of murdering a girl or two (sorry to be noncommittal, just bad memory not indifference) and went to prison where he was denied medicine and got even worse. That was not a spoiler, we all knew he didn't do it.

Had a couple of sisters that loved him. Turned out it wasn't him and they let him go and he died a fairly broken man.

Does this light up a bulb for anyone? I want to recommend it.

Edited January 18, 2017 by Guest

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

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Edited January 18, 2017 by Guest

[Guest cooby]

No not Jeets. Or maybe him, but not that book.

Tell us about it please, Always looking for good reads.

[Guest cooby]

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5345.The_Innocent_Man
here it is! Can't seem to get a damn picture of it to post correctly

Editor:

[nymr83]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: It does not end well, trust me.

when i read Cooby's post I was of course immediately thinking up Jeter jokes before I even finished the first sentence.

too bad the book turned out to be fictional

[Guest cooby]

Actually it's not

[G-Fafif]

One of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Ryne-Duren/e/B001KIWS8S

[Guest cooby]

No, I saw them while I was googling though.

It's definitely the Grisham one. Thanks for the help, editor!