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Two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Tim Lincecum has joined forces with Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Deanne Fitzmaurice and award-winning writer Joan Ryan to release Freak Season: Behind the Scenes with San Francisco Giants Pitcher Tim Lincecum from Spring Training to the World Series (www.freakseason.com). This 82-page, four-color book is an intimate portrait of Lincecum’s and his 2010 teammates’ stirring triumph in winning the Giant’s first World Series Championship since moving to San Francisco in 1958.

What is captured in Fitzmaurice’s images and Ryan’s compelling text is a behind-the-scenes’ view of the life of an extremely private man. Contrary to his public image of rock-star pitcher, Lincecum is an introvert who keeps company mostly with childhood friends and shuns the spotlight. What emerges is a fearless competitor whose knees buckle when he has to speak in public, a restless man who can’t sit still through a movie but has such hyper-focus on the mound that he sinks into what he describes as a sort of netherworld.