After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were poised to do another album, and I guess because the axiom 'If it works, run it into the ground' was prevalent then, we were probably poised to do Rumours II. I don't know how you do that, but somehow my light bulb that went off was, 'Let's just not do that. Let's very pointedly not do that.' ”
Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.

Fleetwood Mac's Tusk (33 1/3)

Arts & Photography

Trucks, Rob

Music

Continuum

No position on the field receives more attention from fans than the starting pitcher, and yet it is one of the most misunderstood positions in all of baseball. Author Rob Trucks conducted dozens of interviews with major league hurlers, from past greats like Jim Kaat and Bill "Spaceman" Lee to today's top pitchers, including Bronson Arroyo and Jake Peavy, to give baseball fans an insider's look at this key position.

The Starting Pitcher (Baseball Behind the Seams)

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

Clerisy Press, Emmis Books

Part of the Behind the Seams series, The Catcher is an in-depth exploration into the most demanding position in baseball. Interviews by author Rob Trucks of more than fifty major-league catchers, past and present — including Yogi Berra, Lance Parrish, Charles Johnson, and Mike Lieberthal — give a never-before-seen glimpse into life behind the mask. They share the techniques they mastered to become great catchers, their most memorable plays, and what it feels like to catch a no-hitter or a knuckleball.

The Catcher (Baseball Behind the Seams)

Clerisy Press

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.

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

Smallmouth Pr

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Books by Trucks, Rob

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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk (33 1/3)

The Starting Pitcher (Baseball Behind the Seams)

The Catcher (Baseball Behind the Seams)

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