Dirk Hayhurst

What draws me to Hayhurst is the rare double talent of doing a thing and then writing honestly about it. Plenty of big leaguers retire and let the memories fade, but this Ohio-born pitcher turned his journey through the Padres and Blue Jays into four candid books about life in pro baseball. I admire that he refused to romanticize the grind. Reaching the mound and then mastering the page is an unusual second act, and I find his willingness to reckon with the unglamorous parts genuinely valuable. He gives the lower rungs of the sport a voice they rarely get.

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Name (English)

Dirk Hayhurst

Name (Japanese)

ダーク・ヘイハースト

Reading

だーく・へいはーすと

Born

March 24, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Canton, Ohio, United States

Occupation

baseball player / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

High school

Canton South High School

• Official sitehttps://dirkhayhurst.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/TheGarfoose
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20Hayhurst
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q529398

Tags

• Ohio
• baseball player
• writer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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