Calico Joe in Crazy Challenge Connection

May 15, 2018 Mary Ann rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle-e-books, audio

A phone call, a father who is dying. The family is broken and will never be completely healed. The father had been an abusive father and husband and when the wife finally gets it together to take the children away, the damage is done. The father has little to anything to do with the children and the son, Paul Tracy, wants little to do with his father and celebrates that all his children are girls and won't feel the need to play a sport, like their father.

Warren Tracy is a former Big League Bas ...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Chris rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, fiction, united-states, sports, 300

I loved this book! It held me spellbound, especially the play-by-play of the baseball scenes. The story is told in a series of flashbacks. Paul Tracy learns that his father, former (fictional) Mets pitcher Warren Tracy is dying. But all the things you think might be cool about having a major league pitcher for a father were the exact opposite in Paul's home. Warren Tracy was a megalomaniacal alcoholic with a huge chip on his shoulder because he didn't think he received his fair share of fan adul ...more

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Apr 22, 2013 Lori Henrich rated it liked it · review of another edition

Paul loved baseball when he was younger. He played in a league and made scrapbooks for his favorite players. His dad, Warren Tracey, was a pitcher for the Mets. He wasn't the greatest play, nor was his reputation the best. Warren miss treated his wife and children so much that when he was on the road with the team they were able to breath and relax. When Joe Castle arrived on the major league scene for the Cubs, he became the hero for most young boys. Paul followed his career and devoted an enti ...more

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Mar 29, 2012 Nancy Brady rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library-book, e-book

Mixing real life figures from baseball with the fictionalized story of Joe Castle and Warren Tracey, Grisham's narrator, Paul Tracey, tells the story of a phenomenal baseball career cut short by a life-altering event and its subsequent destruction of a father-son relationship already damaged. Although told from the son's point of view, can there be redemption for any of them? Loved the baseball references and so will any baseball aficionado. ...more

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