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Title:

CASTRO'S CURVEBALL

By:

Tim Wendel

Format:

Paperback

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£13.99

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£11.33

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£2.66

ISBN 10:

0803259573

ISBN 13:

9780803259577

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Pub. date:

25 September, 2006

Pages:

300

Description:

Widowed and retired, Billy Bryan is "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past - and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947, Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country's.

Synopsis:

Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past - and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 1947, Bryan was playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as the island country's. Then one fateful night Bryan witnessed a young student radical named Fidel unleash an amazing curveball. So begins Bryan's tug-of-war with destiny. Tim Wendel is an award-winning writer whose articles and columns have appeared in the "New York Times", "The Washington Post" and "USA Today". He teaches writing at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of "The New Face of Baseball: The One-Hundred-Year Rise" and "Triumph of Latinos in America's Favorite Sport".

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University of Nebraska Press

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Returnable

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