Review Of The Facts Finds Baseball Memoir Can’t Be True

“Matt McCarthy, a graduate of Yale and of Harvard Medical School now working as an intern in the residency program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital in New York, has gained national attention in recent weeks for ‘Odd Man Out,’ his salacious memoir of his summer as an obscure minor league pitcher. … But statistics from that season, transaction listings and interviews with his former teammates indicate that many portions of the book are incorrect, embellished or impossible.”