He said he had called it "Better Get a Hit in Your Soul".
"He better get a hit, or he's going to hear about it from Pelf for a long time".
"I think historically, the great centers, they've always performed better with a hit man beside them," Van Gundy said.
The book was not an instant best-seller when it appeared, in 2006, but it was something almost better: a cult hit.
And afterward Woolsey commented that he thought the spade seven would have been readable, but that the spade king was better, a good "hit me over the head" play.
It also contained the singles "Never Leave Me Alone" and "Nobody Does It Better," a Warren G-assisted hit.
"When you lose a guy like that, you've got to pitch a little better, hit a little better and play a little better," Braves Manager Bobby Cox said.
"It's better to build a hit platform than just a hit device," he said.
Even better is synthesizing a hit show with a critics' favorite, like "Freaks".
Up the Down Staircase (1967) about a dedicated teacher in New York suited him better and proved a hit.
