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"Tough, direct, upsetting, and strangely beautiful. One of the best activities autobiographies I've ever before read. It comes from the heart." (Stephen Ruler) Eclipsing the original activities memoir, House of Fingernails or toenails, by ex - world champ, multimillionaire entrepreneur, and imprisoned felon Lenny Dykstra, spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions - a relentlessly engaging American epic that careens between the levels and the abyss. Nicknamed "Nails" for his hustle and grit, Lenny contacted the overall game of football - and life - with mythic strength. During his 10 years in the majors as a center fielder for the renowned 1980s Mets and the 1990s Phillies, he was named to three All-Star groups and played in two of the very most memorable World Series of the modern time. An overachiever known for his clutch visits, high on-base ratio, and aggressive security, Lenny was later identified by his ex - minor little league roommate, Billy Beane, as the prototypical "Moneyball" player in Michael Lewis' best retailer. Cigarette stained, steroid power, and booze and medication fueled, Toenails also identified a notorious time of extra in baseball. Then came another work no novelist could plausibly conjure: After retiring, Dykstra became a famous business mogul and investment guru. Touted as "one of the fantastic ones" by CNBC's Jim Cramer, he became "baseball's most improbable postcareer success storyline" (The New Yorker), investing in a $17.5-million mansion and traveling the planet by private plane. However when the current economic climate imploded in 2008, Lenny lost everything. Then your feds shifted in: Convicted of personal bankruptcy fraud (unjustly, he contends), Lenny dished up two and a half harrowing years in prison, where he was the victim of a bad savage beating by prison guards that knocked out his front teeth. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, channeling the bewildered fascination of several observers, announced that Lenny's outrageous rise and spectacular fall season was "the greatest story that I've ever seen in my lifetime". Now, for the first time, Lenny tells all about his tumultuous job, from battling through crippling pain to steroid use and medication habit to a life of indulgence and extra, then an epic plunge and the long road back again to redemption. Was Lenny's hard-charging, risk-it-all aspect accountable for his success in football and business and his precipitous fall season from grace? What lessons, if any, has he learned now that he has already established time to think and reflect? Hilarious, unflinchingly genuine, and irresistibly listenable, House of Fingernails or toenails makes no apologies and leaves nothing at all left unsaid.
