Cup of Coffee: The Very Short Careers of Eighteen Major League Pitchers

Following in the footsteps of the fictional Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, writer Rob Trucks traveled the country in search of modern Moonlight Grahams – former pitchers whose major league careers lasted less than fifty innings. Cup of Coffee collects Trucks’s conversations with eighteen of these men – what they went through to reach the major leagues, why they didn’t stay, and what they saw, heard, and learned along the way.

These are stories of success and failure, accomplishment and disappointment, heartbreak and fulfillment, all while rubbing shoulders with baseball legends on the national pastime’s greatest stage. Cup of Coffee speaks not only to baseball aficionados, but students of the human condition as well.