20.1 - MOST IMPROVED PLAYER – Wayne's task: Play Ball!

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20.1 - MOST IMPROVED PLAYER – Wayne's task: Play Ball!

After four months of dreary non-baseballness, (I tried watching cricket, but it's just not the same) baseball is finally back! This task is designed to celebrate the return of the greatest of all sports!

This is a one book task. Required: Indicate the option chosen when you post.

Option 1: The Washington Nationals won the 2019 World Series, thus ending a 95 year drought, that saw Washington D.C. go without a team for 35 of those years. What mattered to me,however, is that the Nationals used to be the Montreal Expos, my favorite team from the time they played their first game. Although the Expos had plenty of great players . . . The Hawk, The Kid, Le Grand Orange, just to name a few. . . they never managed to win a World Series. So while the Nats celebrated their win, I put on my dusty old Expos cap and celebrated the first Nationals/Expos franchise victory.
Task: Read a book set at least 50% in either Montreal or Washington D.C.
Required: If the setting is not obvious on the book’s main GRs page include a reference when you post.

Option 2: With the Nationals win, the team that now has the longest World Series drought is the Cleveland Indians, who haven't won since 1948. Like the Expos, the Indians have had some excellent teams without claiming the big prize, most notably the 1954 team that won 111 regular season games but were swept by the New York Giants.
Task: Read a book that was first published in 1948 or earlier.

Option 3: I now follow the Toronto Blue Jays, who have recently fallen on hard times but are rebuilding with the help of some young stars whose fathers were also great players: Bo Bichette, son of Colorado Rockies star Dante, Cavan Biggio, son of Hall of Famer Craig, and of course Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who, after destroying minor league pitching, proved to be mortal after all, hitting a "mere" .272 in his rookie MLB season.
Task: Read a book which has either the word "father" or "son" in the title or subtitle. The words must match exactly.

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This thread is now open!

[Zach]

Just to confirm for Option 3, a book like Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls wouldn't work because it is not "father" by itself? Or is it good?

Thanks!

[Simone]

Does it count if it's "sons" instead of "son"?

[Fiona (Titch)]

The Father of the Bride This is Kindle only but has 287 pages. Can I read this or would I need to clarify for pages/kindle?

[Kristina Simon]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "The Father of the Bride This is Kindle only but has 287 pages. Can I read this or would I need to clarify for pages/kindle?"

This isn't really a question for a task creator. The Rules of the challenge require that you get any ebook without a print edition approved for length in Ebook page verification in General Help, regardless of what task you want to use the book for.

[Aprilleigh]

Fiona (Titch) wrote: "The Father of the Bride This is Kindle only but has 287 pages. Can I read this or would I need to clarify for pages/kindle?"

There is a paperback and a MMPB on Amazon - ask a librarian to add those.