If I Never Get Back

Brock, Darryl

ISBN 10: 0345370554 / ISBN 13: 9780345370556

Published by Ballantine Books, 1991

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00093441652

Synopsis:

Journalist Sam Fowler steps off a train in Ohio and finds himself back in the year 1869, and he falls in with the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, and accompanies on their first nationwide tour

From the Inside Flap: s taking a modern-day Amtrak home to San Francisco when an unscheduled stop somewhere west of Cleveland gives him the opportunity to stretch his legs. Instead, Sam finds that time has stretched and mysteriously transported him back to 1869.<br><br>Bewildered at first, Sam soon meets up with the Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first all-professional team, and begins to ride the rails with them on their first national tour across post-Civil War America. He encounters a political conspiracy, a get-rich-quick scheme with Mark Twain, and through it all, the shaky-legged beginnings of America's favorite pastime . . . before it ever was!<br><br>"Could be the baseball novel of the new season . . . IF I NEVER GET BACK takes the reader out to the old ball game with great charm." -- The New York Times<br><br>"Engrossing . . . Intriguing . . . Exciting and fast-paced." -- The Washington Post Book World

Bibliographic Details

Title: If I Never Get Back
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good