Stealing Yesterday

by Ron Nytes

Don Jackson had a problem. One day, while walking on the north side of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he suffered a severe bout of vertigo. He had been through this before but not to this extent. When Don recovered, he found himself in a different world. Not a different world exactly, but a different Sheboygan. It didn’t take Don long to realize he had been somehow transferred back in time to a much younger city. Being a few blocks from the former Legion Park, Sheboygan’s baseball “home,” Don walked over to check out the area. The park had been torn down years before and had not been re-built. But there it was in all it’s former glory. Don was a baseball fan and knew much about the sport’s local history. A visit to a long-gone shrine was practically heaven to him.After walking the grounds and taking in it’s marvelous ambience, Don settled into the third base dugout. Now what? Why am I here? Am I supposed to be doing something? Meet someone? And how do I get back to my own time? Or do I? While pondering his dilemma, a man walks in through the front gate. So began an adventure both fantastic and unexplainable.The man was Jimmie Foxx, baseball Hall of Famer. One of the all-time greats. Together, Don and Jimmie would travel from Milwaukee to Baltimore, Minneapolis to Philadelphia. But they would always return to Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Whether it was 1946 or 1953, the boys were always on a mission. Unfortunately for them, they were never quite certain just what that mission might be. As Jimmie, under an assumed name, played for the Sheboygan Indians or participated in home run hitting contests, and Don worked the night shift at the Hotel Foeste, the pieces of the puzzle started coming together. With the help of Don’s cousin Craig, the trio keep getting closer and closer to a resolution. But would they ever resolve the seemingly never ending dilemmas and paradoxes? “Stealing Yesterday” takes you along with our heroes Don and Jimmie as they weave their way through the by-gone days of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, playing baseball and changing lives.

284 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2019