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Three Days at Wrigley Field
"Any team can have a bad century."
(Jack Brickhouse, Chicago Cubs TV Announcer, 1948-81)
Which is more important, tradition or victory? Rachel Caravetti, a star athlete with gaps in her past, pushes professional baseball to answer that question. She has the pitch to win. Does baseball have the guts to hire her?
The owner of the Chicago Cubs is dying of cancer. He is desperate for his team to make it into the World Series, but the team's relief pitching is hurting. Kevin Boswell, the slumping ace pitcher, stands to lose his job if Rachel succeeds; he is also the only man Rachel has ever loved.
To what lengths will the devious manager of the Cubs, the commissioner of baseball and Mike's scheming granddaughter go to keep Rachel out of professional baseball?
In this struggle for a World Series Cub appearance, anger, skill, fear, dreams and raw talent lock in deadly battle. The beloved "Friendly Confines" cradles the last dreams of a dying man and the struggling romance between two people who love baseball as much as they love each other. On its pitcher's mound, Rachel faces her deepest fear and learns that her biggest challenge has nothing to do with baseball.
(Jack Brickhouse, Chicago Cubs TV Announcer, 1948-81)
Which is more important, tradition or victory? Rachel Caravetti, a star athlete with gaps in her past, pushes professional baseball to answer that question. She has the pitch to win. Does baseball have the guts to hire her?
The owner of the Chicago Cubs is dying of cancer. He is desperate for his team to make it into the World Series, but the team's relief pitching is hurting. Kevin Boswell, the slumping ace pitcher, stands to lose his job if Rachel succeeds; he is also the only man Rachel has ever loved.
To what lengths will the devious manager of the Cubs, the commissioner of baseball and Mike's scheming granddaughter go to keep Rachel out of professional baseball?
In this struggle for a World Series Cub appearance, anger, skill, fear, dreams and raw talent lock in deadly battle. The beloved "Friendly Confines" cradles the last dreams of a dying man and the struggling romance between two people who love baseball as much as they love each other. On its pitcher's mound, Rachel faces her deepest fear and learns that her biggest challenge has nothing to do with baseball.
324 pages, Paperback
First published June 21, 2011
About the author
K.P. Gresham
7 books213 followersK.P. Gresham is an Illinois girl gone Texan. Her stories are based on her wide-range of experiences from living in Chicago and small town Illinois to making the move to Texas where's she’s called both Houston and Austin home. K.P. was a law school media librarian, taught literature to middle school students and conducted K-8 as well as adult choirs. Besides her novels, she has written two musicals, several plays and has worked in theatre since graduating from Illinois State University.
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September 29, 2017
Kevin, the Chicago Cubs star reliever, is in a slump and posed for the playoffs. Rachel, a female pitcher, is critical to winning the game. There are relationship problems involves a love triangle between the team’s owner’s daughter, Rachel and Kevin. The story is about who strikes out on the mound and in the characters’ lives.
I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway. Although encouraged, I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway. Although encouraged, I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
May 4, 2022
The author did not even have her facts straight. She wrote that the Cibs were last in the World Series in 1946;it was 45. The plot is not very good.
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