If I Never Get Back If I Never Get Back
If I Never Get Back

If I Never Get Back

A Novel

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Publisher Description

Time travel meets baseball in this “grand adventure” about a modern-day reporter who witnesses the birth of America’s favorite pastime (The Washington Times)
 
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler is stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage when he is suddenly transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he feels rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation’s first pro baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. But American sports isn't the only thing to undergo a major transformation—Sam himself starts to change as he faces life-threatening 19th-century challenges on and off the baseball diamond. With the support of his fellow ballplayers and the lovely Caitlin O'Neill, will he regain the sense of family he desperately needs?
 
Darryl Brock masterfully evokes post-Civil War America—its smoky cities and transcontinental railroad, its dance halls and parlour houses, its financial booms and busts. Equally appealing to sports fans and anyone who appreciates a well-told story, If I Never Get Back is a literary home run that "grabs you from line one on page one and never lets go" (San Francisco Chronicle).

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2007
May 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
North Atlantic Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
1.3
MB

Customer Reviews

DavidQ1970 ,

A Must Read for Old Time Baseball Fans

I was assigned this book to read in college almost 30 years ago and I still read it at least once every couple of years. The way he captures the origins of professional baseball and intertwines it with the narrative story in this book never fails to capture my imagination. Even knowing how the story ends after all these years, I still get caught up in the excitement of the drama every time. One of my all-time favorite books!

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