House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge

✍ Scribed by Dykstra, Lenny

• Book ID: 108981653
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062407368

✦ Synopsis

Eclipsing the traditional sports memoir, House of Nails is a tale of Shakespearian proportions--a relentlessly entertaining ride that careens from the heights to the abyss.

Lenny Dykstra, nicknamed "Nails" for his hustle and grit, approached the game of baseball--and life--with mythic intensity. During his decade in the majors as a legendary member of the 1980s Mets and 1990s Phillies, he was named to three All-Star teams and played in two of the most memorable World Series of the modern era.

Then came a second act no novelist could plausibly conjure: After retiring, Dykstra became "baseball's most improbable post-career success story" (The New Yorker). But when the real estate bubble burst in 2008, Lenny lost everything. Then the feds moved in: convicted of bankruptcy fraud (unjustly, he contends), Lenny served two and a half harrowing years in prison.

Now, for the first time, Dykstra tells all about his tumultuous career on and off the field....