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1 Dombo and Angel by jeff thomas

Man's wife reminises about their life together during his posthumus induction to baseball's Hall of Fame. An often humorous, always piognant look at the differances between his public baseball life and their private family life.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Romance
Tags: Romance, Humor, Drama, Baseball, Tear Jerker
Downloads: 1446 | Votes: 122 | Score: 8.77
Size: 28KB | 5,517 words | Posted:

2 Play Ball! by Ernest Bywater

Due to family matters a teen boy moves to the USA, where he learns to play, and like playing, baseball. He works hard and enjoys his baseball. To him it's a fun sport, but he can't resist when they offering him good money to play professional baseball. However, there's one problem, few paid ball players are true professionals. He must choose between playing in a situation he doesn't like, or walking away from good money, and playing where he likes to play for the fun. 76,000 words
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Workplace, Rags to Riches, Sports, Baseball
Downloads: 13804 | Votes: 413 | Score: 8.28
Size: 381KB | 77,605 words | Posted: Concluded:

3 Playing by Ear by Lumpy

Country Roads (1)
After spending his young life traveling with his musician father, Charlie Nelson has roots for the first time. Living with his mother in a small Appalachian town in western North Carolina, Charlie struggles to find his place in this new world, which isn't without challenges. Living in poverty, dealing with bullies, and having no friends, Charlie's new life is anything but a fairytale. If it were up to Charlie, he'd stay at home and play his guitar... but life doesn't always give us what we want
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General
Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Drama, School, Music, Rags to Riches, Baseball
Downloads: 24965 | Votes: 252 | Score: 8.23
Size: 902KB | 181,764 words | Posted: Concluded:

4 Fanfare by Lumpy

Country Roads (2)
Music, Baseball and Bullies. Charlie's life is busier than ever as he continues to put down roots in his community, making friends and enemies, and explore who he wants to be. Charlie decides to follow the two things he always loved when he was a kid, music and baseball. Joining the school team and forming his first band both pull him in different directions, adding to the pressures he already faced with school, bullies, making friends, and trying to become his own man.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General
Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, School, Rags to Riches, Sports, Baseball
Downloads: 18999 | Votes: 179 | Score: 8.09
Size: 1053KB | 213,283 words | Posted: Concluded:

5 My Longest Trip by jeff thomas

True story of a son and the beginning of the evolution of his relationship with his father from that of father/son to that of best friends.
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Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: True
Tags: Coming of Age, True, Baseball, Young Adult
Downloads: 998 | Votes: 59 | Score: 7.79
Size: 5KB | 1,047 words | Posted:
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