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Calico Joe

A Novel

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In this surprising and moving novel, the careers of a golden-boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it's what happens off the field that makes Calico Joe a classic.
A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball…


Whatever happened to Calico Joe?

It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded third and headed for home. The next day, Jim Hickman, the first baseman for the Cubs, injured his back. The team suddenly needed someone to play first, so they reached down to their AA club in Midland, Texas, and called up a twenty-one-year-old named Joe Castle. He was the hottest player in AA and creating a buzz.

In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas dazzled Cub fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records.

Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faced Calico Joe, Paul was in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his Dad. Then Warren threw a fastball that would change their lives forever…

In John Grisham's new novel the baseball is thrilling, but it's what happens off the field that makes CALICO JOE a classic.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
29. März 2012
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
208
Autor/Autorin
John Grisham
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
gebunden
Abbildungen
TITLE PAGE ILLUSTRATION
Gewicht
377 g
Größe (L/B/H)
226/149/30 mm
ISBN
9780385536073

Portrait

John Grisham

John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.

 

Grisham is a two-time winner  of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

 

When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.

 

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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Praise for Calico Joe

Grisham knocks it out of the park. The Washington Post

An enjoyable, heartwarming read that s not just for baseball fans. USA Today

Grisham has hit a home run. . . . Calico Joe is a great read, a lyrical ode to baseball, small-town America, youthful innocence and a young boy s search for heroes. The Buffalo News

[A] pleasure . . . Suffice to say [Grisham] knows his way around the ballpark as well as he does a courtroom. The Washington Times

Praise for John Grisham

Never let it be said this man doesn t know how to spin a good yarn. Entertainment Weekly

Grisham may well be the best American storyteller writing today. The Philadelphia Inquirer

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