Foreword

Foreword

This is a story about people, their attitudes, behaviours, and actions. It is also meant to be entertaining at the same time. Baseball was chosen as a sports venue to help carry and focus the story plot and characters.

When I started this story I wrote to a number of baseball clubs and universities to obtain permission to use their real names in the story. A few responded by saying they couldn’t give permission for legal reasons to do with contracts they have, and some didn’t respond at all. After six months I gave up waiting and I went ahead to write the story without naming any specific organisations. I did choose a real life town to base the main character, Mo, in to have a place people can relate to. To the best of my ability, while using maps and search engines, I located Mo in a place where you’ve a selection of real life universities and colleges to pick from, plus there’s a selection of both Major and Minor League baseball clubs within suitable commuting range of the base location. Thus, you have a choice as to which teams you wish to feel the story is linked to. I deliberately refrain from naming the teams for legal reasons. The same is true of the key people in the organisations. Everyone named is fictitious and are made up by me from my fertile imagination.

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