Curveballs and changeups
Subtitle: [bleeding blue and seeing red]
By: K. P. Kmitta
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781491760956; 9781491760932
Subjects: Fiction; Baseball stories; Récits de base-ball; Chicago Cubs (Baseball team); St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team)
Other titles: Curveballs & changeups
Description: Robert Campbell, a businessman from St. Louis, heads to Chicago in 1867 and meets William Hulbert, a mysterious man who tells him he plans to build a baseball field. Hulbert claims that baseball in America will be a grand new pastime and a grand new business opportunity. In 2006, Scott Banks is a devoted Cubs fan even though he's moved to St. Louis and is married to his well-meaning, Cardinal-loving wife. Life for Banks is on cruise control until he gets the chance to fulfill a dream of a lifetime-but it comes with a curveball. Suddenly, he's forced to face the gut-wrenching realities that have him swinging and missing life's off-speed pitches. Modern time is intertwined with a nineteenth-century depiction of the birth of a storied rivalry in "Curveballs and Changeups".
Notes: Subtitle from front cover.