Waiting for Teddy Williams by Howard Frank Mosher
Date: (anyone's guess)
Ana - lead discussion & organize meeting time
Cecily - pick next book, organize and lead next time (*unless the next month is October, then I'm squeezing Tracy in because she's excited & has a special plan)
Melissa - beverage
Tracy - food
Kate - host and call
Amy - beverage
Mindi - food
Jess - food
You can read about Mosher at:
http://www.howardfrankmosher.
Below is from a review by Publishers Weekly:
In Mosher's ninth novel (after The True Account), one of the funniest and most
heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory, the Boston Red Sox beat the
Yankees to win their division, then go on to whip the Mets to win the World
Series. Eight-year-old Ethan "E.A." Allen lives in the rural Vermont village of
Kingdom Common. Redheaded, fatherless and home-schooled, E.A. longs to do two
things in life?play baseball for the Red Sox and find out who his father is.
E.A. is raised on a run-down farm by his smart, cheerful mother, Gypsy Lee, who
writes wacky country-and-western songs, and his grandmother, a mean old biddy
who swears Bucky Dent's home run in 1978 put her in a wheelchair for life. One
night a drifter called Teddy with a mysterious connection to the Allen family
shows up at the farm, and soon he's giving E.A. tips on batting, fielding and
baserunning. Nine years later and after countless adventures, E.A. is a hotshot
pitcher. Aided by Teddy and Cajun Stan the Baseball Man, E.A. ends up pitching
for the nearly deflated and defunct Red Sox. His big league adventures are a
riotous string of baseball antics involving even more screwball characters like
the Sox manager, Legendary Spence, whose talking macaw, Curse of the Bambino,
sits on his shoulder in the dugout and torments him by saying, "New York
Yankees, number one." This is a baseball fantasy, a warm and hilarious tale of
dreams come true.
*Tracy is very excited to pick a book for October so I'm going to tweak things so she can. Also, for what she has planned she requests we make October bring a friend month.
