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Originally Posted by f.montoya
Happen to be reading the book at this very moment. It's hard to put down but I have to pick up my daughter from school in 5 minutes. I totally feel like I'm in a baseball time machine with each page turn. Roger does an absolutely outstanding job of scene setting so I really get the feel of being right smack in the middle of 1929. After lunch, I'll probably finish off another 100+ pages.  |
This is truly exciting to hear. Please let me know your final thoughts when you get all the way to the end.
Sales and publicity have been remarkable in these first two weeks, but nothing tops Della calling with the book in hand, choked up on the phone with gratitude -- and then sending an email about this being an answers to years of her prayers that someone would finally write something more about her father than that one pitch.
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Charlie Root won more games for the Cubs than any pitcher, yet was remembered for one pitch to Babe Ruth. Learn more, see rare video, and order the first biography of this Cub great as revealed by daughter Della, 90, and Roger Snell -- OOTP beta tester, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of "Root for the Cubs: Charlie Root and the 1929 Chicago Cubs." See all this at www.rootforthecubs.com.
Beta tester, OOTP 2007-2011.
Member, Society for American Baseball Research.
Last edited by rasnell; 04-21-2009 at 09:21 PM.
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