[1] He is also the author of A False Spring, a bittersweet memoir about his minor league baseball career, which is ranked #37 on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time and which Time called “one of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America...”[2][3] Pat Jordan grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he excelled as a baseball pitcher from a young age, tossing four consecutive no-hitters as a Fairfield little leaguer.
He reported to the McCook Braves of the Nebraska State League, where he played alongside future Hall of Famers Phil Niekro and Joe Torre.
His memoir, A False Spring, became a best-seller and Jordan retired as a ballplayer and returned home to Connecticut to pursue his new career.
The 56-year-old acquitted himself well, allowing no hits or runs and one walk in his single inning on the mound, striking out cleanup hitter Eddie Perozo to end the frame.
(Jordan was believed to be the oldest man to pitch in a pro baseball game since Hub Kittle, who threw one inning for St. Louis Cardinals Class A team in Springfield, Illinois, in 1980 at the age of 63.