Chasing the Big Leagues (eBook)
238 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03895-1 (ISBN)
After the Major League Baseball players walk off the field, washout ball player Jake Standen gets a second chance to chase his dream. But Jake and his new teammates have just six weeks to learn how to play like never before.
Selling Points
1) Compelling fiction based on the true story of the regular guys who almost became professional baseball players during the strike of 1994-95 (called replacement players or strike breakers)
2) Crossover promotion between fiction and sports
3) Baker's debut novel explores the ultimate underdog sports story
Three years after earning a full-ride baseball scholarship to Ohio State, "Golden" Jake Standen has burned out. Working as a furniture mover and bouncing between meaningless relationships, he's convinced that his baseball dreams are over. But after the 1994 Major League Baseball strike prematurely ends the season, the playoffs, and even the World Series, Jake is about to get his lucky break. Strike be damned, the owners will have a team for the '95 season, even if they have to open tryouts and spring training to anyone who can hit or throw the ball.
After scoring contracts for the Toronto Blue Jays, Jake, his best friend Brian Sloan, and an unlikely cast of new teammates have just six weeks to learn how to play like never before, amid a slowly building crescendo of public curiosity, media scrutiny, and a labor dispute that could put them on the field come Opening Day—or dash their dreams at any minute. Based on the true stories of the 1994–95 replacement players, Chasing the Big Leagues is an exciting novel about shared dreams and competing interests, best friends and second chances, growing up and finding love.
Brett Baker claims he was working on his MFA degree at the University of Alabama throughout the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike. Born and raised in and around Columbus, Ohio, he currently lives in the Rheinland-Pfalz region of Germany with his wife Melinda, stepdaughter Lydia, and Clochette the cat.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Break Away Books |
| Verlagsort | Bloomington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 150 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport | |
| Schlagworte | baseball strike • Coming of Age • Fiction • Love Story • Major League Baseball • replacement player • Romance • scab • Second Chance • Sports • spring training • strike breaker • third baseman • Toronto Blue Jays • Underdog • washout • world series |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-03895-2 / 0253038952 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-03895-1 / 9780253038951 |
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