If I Never Get Back
by Darryl Brock
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Author: Darryl BrockEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1989-12-30
ISBN: 0517573458
Number of pages: 424
Publisher: Crown
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Book Review: Field of dreams, the movie, on paper.
Summary: 5 Stars
In "If I never get back", Brock masterfully weaves his fictional story telling ability with the genesis of the American pastime. This book is not just for baseball and sport enthusiasts but it is for all who are interested in history, colorful characters and a story sure to keep you up til the morning paper comes. In "If I never get back" Brocks main character goes from an Amtrak train traveling from Clevland to Cincinatti to a steam locomotive with the first professional baseball team the Cincinatti Red Stockings. He is not sure how he got there, he only knows that he passed out and awoke to be with the very first boys of summer. He does not how or if he will ever get back or whether or not he will ever see his children again. While in the year 1869 he meets Mark Twain, President Grant and even invents the bunt in baseball. The storytelling is fluid and absorbing. I was left with just one question. When is the sequel due
Summary of If I Never Get Back
Sam Fowler is taking a modern-day Amtrak home to San Francisco when an unscheduled stop somewhere west of Cleveland gives him the opportunity to stretch his legs. Instead, Sam finds that time has stretched and mysteriously transported him back to 1869.Bewildered at first, Sam soon meets up with the Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first all-professional team, and begins to ride the rails with them on their first national tour across post-Civil War America. He encounters a political conspiracy, a get-rich-quick scheme with Mark Twain, and through it all, the shaky-legged beginnings of America's favorite pastime . . . before it ever was!
"Could be the baseball novel of the new season . . . IF I NEVER GET BACK takes the reader out to the old ball game with great charm." -- The New York Times
"Engrossing . . . Intriguing . . . Exciting and fast-paced." -- The Washington Post Book World
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