ABOUT THE AUTHOR

From a junior college and major college All-American to one of the semi-professionals’ all-time great right-handed pitchers, followed by a professional career, Dave Caiazzo has been recognized throughout the years as one of the Boston area’s elite pitchers of all time.

As you will hear in the newly-released “10 Year Anniversary” AudioBook of his 2011 publication of “Life Tried to Throw Me a Curveball: I Overcame Diabetes to Become a Pro”, you will discover that Dave lived an exceptional life off the field as well. Meeting people in his work after baseball throughout that time span along with befriending so many famous athletes, made his lifestyle that much more interesting.

Dave struck out twenty hitters in just eight innings in a high school game and was Malden High School’s first inductee into its Hall of Fame in 1983. After a very successful two-year career at Massachusetts Bay Community College where he was a combined junior college All-America selection as a pitcher/outfielder/designated hitter, Dave attended the University of New Haven where he played for arguably college baseball’s greatest coach of all time, Coach Frank “Porky” Vieira.

At New Haven, Dave won the opening game of the 1977 College World Series in Springfield, Illinois, and posted an amazing 22-2 record with six shutouts in just two seasons. In 1988, Dave was inducted into the University of New Haven’s baseball-rich Hall of Fame.

Cousin of one of baseball’s most colorful and recognizable players, former New York Yankee first baseman Joe Pepitone, Dave holds the distinct record of eight championships in the then-famous Intercity League with the Malden Merchants and Augustine’s Athletics in just ten seasons. As of this writing in 2021, this is and remains an All-Time Record!

Dave Caiazzo’s Greater Boston Baseball Camp was the most popular camp in the Greater Boston area for twenty-eight years. After his playing career ended, Dave worked as a major league scout for the Cleveland Indians and the Anaheim & Los Angeles Angels for eighteen seasons helping many youngsters into pro baseball and giving them a start into the professional level. One player in particular he helped along the way was former Cy Young Award Winner Steve Bedrosian who recognizes Caiazzo as a key figure in his success!

Dave has helped so many others through college getting them scholarships at top universities. He has coached pitching at the AAU, high school, and college levels. He was the MIT pitching coach for seven seasons. Prior to MIT, he worked at the University of New Haven and Bridgeport University. During the writing of “Life Tried to Throw Me a Curveball” in 2011, Dave was coaching at Bridgeport University as well as serving as the pitching coach for the American Legion Team in his hometown of Malden, Massachusetts. Now Dave is the Pitching Coach for the senior Babe Ruth team in Malden. Dave is currently working year-round as a private pitching instructor.

ABOUT THE AUDIO BOOK

All age groups from high school and older will enjoy this honestly interesting story of so many famous sports and film stars. It is interesting reading for pure baseball lovers as well as people who have serious ailments. You will read how Dave had face-to-face struggles with a deadly disease in diabetes. Many times it leaves you on the edge of your seat with so many scary encounters with close calls and near-death situations.

If anyone has diabetes or any medication-reliant handicap, then you will appreciate how Dave came out of these battles winning most of the time! It will give everyone hope that they can say to themselves “I can do it like Dave Cai did”!