Tuesday 1 September 2015

99 CENT BOOK FIND: Saving Babe Ruth by Tom Swyers

Available for JUST 99 CENTS is Saving Babe Ruth by Tom Swyers (Click for UK, Australia, Canada or India purchase).  Why not grab a copy before it goes back to full price?




BOOK DESCRIPTION
Based on a true story, Saving Babe Ruth is an award-winning novel about a family headed by David Thompson, a burned-out lawyer and Civil War buff. When he learns that the town's youth baseball league is going to fold, David's love for the sport and for his son, Christy, inspire him to try and save it for the kids in town. David puts his fading career on hold as he struggles to resurrect this dream while at the same time trying to save his marriage with his wife, Annie.

Though Christy and Annie want to see him save the league, David finds himself in way over his head. The more he passionately tries to save it, the more he ends up hurting Christy and Annie. It's a catch-22 that leaves his family wounded and David tormented, wedged between his desire to revive the league so he can live with himself, and the desire to heal his family so they can live with him.

When David starts to keep secrets from Annie to satisfy these desires, he weaves a web of deceit that further fractures the family. At the same time, the town wrestles to keep its own secrets under wraps while it almost bursts with people leading double lives. They want David and the league to fail, and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want, even if they have to go through Christy and Annie to get it.

With the help of Johnny McFadden--a newfound friend who's addicted to baseball--David concocts a plan to defend the league and his family. The pair will have to navigate through a maze of backroom politics, corruption, scandal and crime that extends to the professional sports world. David will have to call upon all of his legal and survival skills to try and turn things around.

Saving Babe Ruth is also the inspiring story about a baseball team full of teenage outcasts struggling to believe in themselves on and off the field. When the time is right, they'll face the prospect of having to fight crazy with crazy to save baseball for themselves, their town and beyond.

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