reunion reaches fiftieth heavenly

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14 reviews
Darryl Brock

Plume, 2001

Review from a Deaf reader
I noticed that while reading the other reviews, they were all people who had read this author before or love baseball. I am writing this review from the view of a Deaf person. In the first chapter, the author opens up with a scene at a Deaf school. For those of you who don't know, the Deaf school is a sense of pride in the Deaf community and the author seemed to have an awareness of that. ...

If I Never Get Back

55 reviews
Darryl Brock

Random House Value Publishing, 1992

one of the best
I first read this in high school. I reread it recently and am happy to say that is still one my top favorite books.

The Sun Field
Heywood Broun

Rvive Books, 2008

A long out of print novel (originally published in 1923 and never reprinted), with a new introduction by best selling novelist Darryl Brock (author of "If I Never Get Back"). Heywood Campbell Broun was a well known American newspaper writer, who helped found the American Newspaper Guild. Broun championed the underdog, criticized social injustice, and supported labor unions. He died in 1939. The Sun Field is a very modern novel, with a strong ...

If I Never Get Back.

1 review
Darryl. Brock

Crown Pub., 1990

I would have given it 10 stars if possible
An enthralling book. Brock is meticulous in his research, down to duplicating the style of speech used in 1869. The more you read of this book, the harder it is to put down. After a few pages, you find the seemingly implausible aspect of time travel entirely plausible due to the deft skill of the author. I'm not a big baseball fan, but I really got into this book, far more that I had anticipated. ...

IF I NEVER GET BACK. A Novel.

1 review
Darryl. BROCK

Crown, 1990

As American As Baseball, Apple Pie and Time Travel
"If I Never Get Back" by Darryl Brock has something enjoyable for everybody. It's a historical novel with adventure,danger,action,humor,fantasy and romance, but will be especially loved by those who love time travel and baseball(and train enthusiasts as well). You'll go back in time and escape to a time with no electricity,phones, credit cards, TV, radio or cars, but in the just post civil war ...

Two in the Field: A Novel

10 reviews
Darryl Brock

Frog Books, 2007

A sequel that delivers
After reading "If I never get back," I immediately ordered "Two in the Field." While some disparage this sequel because of the comparative lack of baseball scenes, I found that a plus. I'm not a big baseball fan, and could do without extended descriptions of ball games, as occurred in "If I never get back." I found "Two in the Field" to be exciting, a real adventure story with enough plot twists ...

Old Bears: The Class of 1956 Reaches its Fiftieth Reunion, Reflecting on the Happy Days and the Unhappy Days
Dave Newhouse

North Atlantic Books, 2007

Feeling a bit guilty about his own high-school experience, author Dave Newhouse searched out classmates from his graduating class, the class of 1956 at Menlo-Atherton High School, to find out what happened to them since high school. The stories run the gamut–some are tragic (three people have died since being interviewed), some classmates were strangers to the author, and some he thought he knew turned out to be strangers, as new ...

The Heavenly World Series

2 reviews
Frank O'Rourke

Carroll & Graf, 2003

rediscovered gems
Somehow it seems entirely appropriate that the baseball fiction of Frank O'Rourke--the realism of which which benefited from the insight he gained when he practiced with the Philadelphia Phillies during Spring Training in 1949--should be populated by thinly veiled characters from baseball history. It's kind of a case of life imitating art imitating life, or vice versa. At any rate, these 18 ...