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050 00 $aPS3551.S54$bO55 2000
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100 1 $aAsinof, Eliot,$d1919-2008.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027066
245 10 $aOff-season /$cEliot Asinof.
260 $aCarbondale :$bSouthern Illinois University Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $a149 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aWriting baseball
520 1 $a"Eliot Asinof's newest baseball hero left tiny Gandee, Missouri, as John Clyde Cagle Jr., a hard-throwing lefthander who had pitched a perfect game in high school. New he returns in triumph as the legendary "Black Jack," superstar of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a stoic, menacing mound demon with a Fu Manchu moustache and a 106-mile-per-hour fastball.".
520 8 $a"In a nationally televised event that, like everything else in his life, is precisely orchestrated by agent and money manager Gordon Stanley, Jack's return is to dedicate Black Jack Field, the two-million-dollar ballpark he has donated to his hometown. He arrives in a white stretch limo, glamorous girlfriend at his side and the world at his feet.".
520 8 $a"But he is stung by a spate of bad memories of his boyhood, most painful of which is that of Cyrus Coles, his fat black battery mate who had quietly taught Jack the disciplined pitching that had made him great. Typically now, when Jack throws out the ceremonial first pitch to his father, Vietnam war hero, spit-and-polish sheriff of Gandee, everyone believes the father to be the reason for the son's success.".
520 8 $a"Then Jack confronts Cyrus's murdered body, blown away by a shotgun blast. He has to face the fury of Cyrus's widow, Ruby, and, most provocative of all, an outspoken woman named Foxx, who makes him aware that he's been living a lie." "Jack flees this unsettling scene with his girlfriend for the pleasures of New York City - until he learns that, back in Gandee, his father has arrested Ruby for the murder of her husband. To everyone's astonishment, Jack returns to Gandee to help her."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPitchers (Baseball)$vFiction.
655 7 $aMystery fiction.$2gsafd
655 0 $aBaseball stories.
830 0 $aWriting baseball.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97113967
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3551.S54$iO55 2000