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Castro´s Curveball
Tim Wendel
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Description for Castro´s Curveball
Paperback. 300 pages, black & white illustrations. Widowed and retired, Billy Bryan is "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past - and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947, Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country's. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: WSJT. Dimension: 202 x 136 x 16. Weight: 328.
Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is “coming to the end of many things.” Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past—and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country’s. Then one fateful night Bryan witnessed a young student radical named Fidel unleash an amazing curveball. So begins Bryan's tug-of-war with destiny.
Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is “coming to the end of many things.” Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past—and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947 Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country’s. Then one fateful night Bryan witnessed a young student radical named Fidel unleash an amazing curveball. So begins Bryan's tug-of-war with destiny.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803259577
SKU
V9780803259577
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Tim Wendel
Tim Wendel is an award-winning writer whose articles and columns have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today. He teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport. For more information on Tim Wendel, visit his Web ... Read more
Reviews for Castro´s Curveball
"Tim Wendel's love and impressive knowledge of baseball suffuses every page of this passionate novel of love, loss, and the real freedom that wisdom and time sometimes bring."—Ken Burns, coauthor of Baseball: An Illustrated History "A Cuba libre mixed with baseball, revolution, and moonlight, wonderfully evocative of a time that was and a pitcher that might have been."—Frank Deford, author ... Read more