Twinbill: Further Immersions in Historical Baseball Fiction

By Jeff Polman

From the only baseball replay fictionalizer around comes two unique stories for the price of one:DEAR HANK:A powerful, unusual account of the 1938 season, told through a series of pen pal letters between Tigers slugger Hank Greenberg and a young Jewish baseball fan living in Austria-on the eve of the Nazi invasion. With Hank threatening to break Babe Ruth's record of 60 season home runs set eleven years ago, he has to juggle his on-field exploits with a frightening drama unfolding on the other side of the world. THE BRAGGING RIGHTS LEAGUE:In a racially reversed 1941, a team of all-white stars has to "prove they belong" in the highly competitive all-black major leagues. The Newark Ellingtons and Birmingham Armstrongs are the teams to beat, and President Langston Hughes has a special prize in the cards. Narrated by outfielder Jeff Heath of the Chicago Dorseys, the heated six-team league tests everyone skills, patience, and tolerance, in a topsy-turvy culture where marijuana is legal, chess playing is for lowlifes, and Heath's relationship with Blossom Pickering, daughter of the Alabama governor, is strictly forbidden. With columnist Jupe Dobbs providing the colorful game accounts, it's a fun ride through a time that never was but somehow could have been.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692610707
• ISBN13: 9780692610701
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Grassy Gutter Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"