THE GAME IS EASY - LIFE IS HARD: The Story of Ferguson Jenkins Jr. by Turcotte, Dorothy (re: Fergie Jenkins) - 2002

Grimsby, Ontario: The Fergie Jenkins Foundation, 2002. 201 pp. followed by a series of black and white and colour plates. Signed by Ferguson Jenkins on the half-title page. Black cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the subject's signature, no interior markings. This includes a dropped-in copy of the O-Pee-Chee 1972 Fergie Jenkins baseball card. The Chapters are: The First Dream; The Adelaide Street Gang; Turning Point; Off to the Minor Leagues; Southern Nights; Latin American Here I Come; Chattanooga Choo Choo; The Big Leagues at Last; Wrigley Field; Chew Chew Chew that Chewing Gum; Leo the Lip; A Change of Scene; The Buffalo Head Gang; The Cy Young Award; The Accolades Continue; The Harlem Globetrotters; National Baseball Hall of Fame; More Honours to Come; Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; Walk of Fame; The Second Dream; Some Dreams Don't Last; The Worm in the Apple; The Third Dream; The Game Is Easy Life Is Hard; What Makes a Winner; What Does a HOF Pitcher do in Retirement; and What the Future Holds; followed by: A Lifetime of Achievement; Fergie's Diamond Memories; and an index.. Signed by Subject. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Book.