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| Title | : | If I Never Get Back (If I Never Get Back #1) |
| Author | : | Darryl Brock |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 424 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2007 by Frog in Well (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Sports. Baseball. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy |
Darryl Brock
Paperback | Pages: 424 pages Rating: 4.09 | 1018 Users | 128 Reviews
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Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and tastes changing as he faces life-threatening 19th-century challenges on and off the baseball diamond. Through his attachments to the ballplayers and the lovely Caitlin O'Neill, he might just regain the sense of family he desperately needs. Darryl Brock masterfully evokes post-Civil War America's smoky, turbulent cities, the new transcontinental railroad that takes passengers over prairies and mountains to California, the dance halls and parlor houses, the financial booms and busts, and historical luminaries like Mark Twain and Jesse James. Equally appealing to sports fans and anyone who likes a good read, If I Never Get Back well deserves the Cleveland Plain Dealer's judgment that it "hits a home run."Point Books Conducive To If I Never Get Back (If I Never Get Back #1)
| Original Title: | If I Never Get Back: A Novel |
| ISBN: | 1583941878 (ISBN13: 9781583941874) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | If I Never Get Back #1 |
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Ratings: 4.09 From 1018 Users | 128 ReviewsCriticize Epithetical Books If I Never Get Back (If I Never Get Back #1)
Sam Fowler, a reporter with a failing marriage who is also trying to come back into the reporting game get good stories and a is a little bit of a drunk, is taken from present day San Francisco to post Civil War America of 1869 where he eventually connects with the first great professional baseball team The Cincinnati Red Stockings. Fowler does have some baseball skills that allow him to connect with the team and become part of the roster. But they are sub par to the other payers. Brock comesOne of the greatest time-travel stories of all...well, time! San Francisco journalist and one-time baseball hopeful Sam Fowler (full name Samuel Clemens Fowler), still reeling from the discovery of his unfaithful wife's affair and the breakup of his marriage, travels cross-country to claim the body of the father who deserted him as an infant. During a stopover on the train ride home, Fowler steps outside for a breath of air, becomes lightheaded and momentarily collapses, but regains
Darryl Brock's If I Never Get Back is not and also does not in any way ever claim to be either a literary classic or a masterpiece. But reading does not always have to be a chore or an academic undertaking, and for the sheer pleasure of entertainment, for an appreciated escape from reality into the pages of a novel, not only does If I Never Get Back always and continuously grab the reader and hold his or her interest throughout, there are concurrently and furthermore both enough history and
Darryl Brock's If I Never Get Back is not and also does not in any way ever claim to be either a literary classic or a masterpiece. But reading does not always have to be a chore or an academic undertaking, and for the sheer pleasure of entertainment, for an appreciated escape from reality into the pages of a novel, not only does If I Never Get Back always and continuously grab the reader and hold his or her interest throughout, there are concurrently and furthermore both enough history and
Id heard a lot of good things about this book, and there are plenty of positives, but what jumps out at me now that Im done is just how long it took me to get through it. A friend referred to it as If I Never Get Finished in a comment and it seemed to fit. For 424 pages, it felt a lot more like 600+. Ive always liked stories about time travel, from Back to the Future to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Daryl Brock really nails this history here, particularly regarding the 1869
LOVED this book! not crazy about time travel, but in this case it worked. Man down on his luck catches a train carrying the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings. this is the first team getting paid to play baseball. He invents the bunt, hot dogs, meets Mark Twain, loses a fortune in the gold crash. There is Politics (Irish Rebels) gambling, fights, and Plenty of Baseball.
This is one of my favorite books because it's such great fun. It's a time travel novel that will have you seeing the sights, hearing the sounds and smelling the aromas of 19th century urban America. The protagonist is accidentally whisked back to the 1860s where he has to make a living -- for a while. He ends up traveling with one of America's first professional sports teams, going from from city to city to play the dirty, violent, raucous game of ... baseball? Baseball violent? Wait till you
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