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Let's Play Ball
Miranda is a bright, attractive woman with an important government job, a nice home, and a prominent lawyer husband. Her fraternal twin sister, Jessica, is a sportswriter who has spent years sacrificing her social life and conventional career prospects to establish a magazine. Jessica's publication has finally caught on after she receives renown for an article she writes a...more
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
February 22nd 2010
by iUniverse
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I confess to not understanding a thing about baseball prior to reading this book. Now I have an insight into the politics and intrigue behind the sport, but still don't understand the game itself!
The action centres on twin sisters, Jessica and Miranda. Jessica is engaged to Manny, a Cuban baseball player, who is the star of the local team. After the end of season game, he is abducted from the stadium, and nothing is heard about him for some weeks. Eventually, he surfaces in Cuba, where he is sup...more
The action centres on twin sisters, Jessica and Miranda. Jessica is engaged to Manny, a Cuban baseball player, who is the star of the local team. After the end of season game, he is abducted from the stadium, and nothing is heard about him for some weeks. Eventually, he surfaces in Cuba, where he is sup...more
I wanted to read this book because I love baseball. It is the story of two sisters, who are both ambitious but quite different. Miranda has a government job and is married to a lawyer. Her sister, Jessica is a sportswriter who is engaged to Manny Chavez who plays ball for the Washington Filibusters. These two sisters love each other and the national pastime, but they are thrown into international politics which threatens to damage their relationship. In addition, Miranda has been involved with a...more
Political scandal wrapped up in a nations past time, Let’s Play Ball is an intriguing story of sisterhood; friendship and scandal that will make you doubt every relationship. Miranda and Jessica are ambitious, successful sisters that have grown up loving baseball. Miranda, who is married, has an important government job with homeland security, a nice home and a prominent lawyer husband. Her sister Jessica is outspoken, unconventional and a sports writer, who has built her career based on her ins...more
If author Linda Gould isn’t an avid baseball fan, she covers it well, for her descriptions of plays, players, locker rooms, owner’s suites and game-time tension in Let’s Play Ball will easily take readers out to the ball game. But the games between the Washington Filibusters and the Florida Keys feature more than pitchers’ duels and homeruns. A conspiracy is brewing during the game that will decide the National League championship. Fraternal twins Miranda and Jessica are at the stadium, Miranda...more
if you are looking for a book strickly about baseball the game, this isn't it. If you want to get a glimpse about the behind the scenes politics and back stabbing this is the book for you. It is well written and easy to become engaged in the story.
It was cute. I have always liked live baseball but I don't much care about mad Latinos. I thought the Cuban stuff was sort of a reach.
May 13, 2013
Libby Sellers
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