Due to family matters a teen boy moves to the USA, where he learns to play, and like playing, baseball. He works hard and enjoys his baseball. To him it's a fun sport, but he can't resist when they offering him good money to play professional baseball. However, there's one problem, few paid ball players are true professionals. He must choose between playing in a situation he doesn't like, or walking away from good money, and playing where he likes to play for the fun. 76,000 words
Size: 381 KB (77,581 words)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Sex Contents: No Sex
Tags: Fiction, Sports, Workplace, Rags To Riches
Review by Jetcrash747 [other reviews by Jetcrash747]
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In my younger days, I cut my teeth playing baseball, so the story 'Play Ball' by 'Ernest Bywater' brought back some good memories. In chapter one, Morris 'Mo' Walker starts the story at the open grave of his mother, Alice Walker, who had fast-moving cancer. Another character in the opening chapter is Randolph 'Randy' Walker, the father.
Mo's mother, Alice, is buried in Australia, so how does he end up playing professional baseball in the United States? That's an excellent question, and you'll have to read the story in nine chapters to find out.
Overall the story is entertaining, a young man learning to play baseball and excelling in it. I found some of Mo's suggestions to the experienced coaches challenging to take. Still, it's just s story, so that anything can happen.
'Ernest Bywater,' a prolific writer, has created an enjoyable tale about a spring/summer/fall sport that is enthralling and delightful in every possible way, an excellent read.
