The Home Run: Freiendship and Baseball

By William Paxson

A NOVEL OF BASEBALL AND BROTHERHOOD

Chicago, 1933. Eight-year-old Bram Content arrives from the Netherlands speaking almost no English, and finds, behind his family's tailor shop, a boy named Otis Freeman and a rusted rake that will change the whole shape of his life.

Across a line neither of them drew, through a segregated high school, a fiercely fought rivalry, and a war that scatters them to opposite corners of the Pacific, Bram and Otis measure out three decades of American life one inning at a time - box scores and heartbreak, tragedy and stubborn joy, a home run each of them waits a lifetime to finally hit.

Spanning the Great Depression to the 2005 World Series, The Home Run is a novel about the game that outlasts every era it's played in - and the friendships sturdy enough to outlast the lines drawn to keep them apart.

For readers who believe the best stories take a lifetime to finish.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFBMSJZ4
• ISBN13: 9798192718278
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"