The Home Run: Freiendship and Baseball

A NOVEL OF BASEBALL AND BROTHERHOODChicago, 1933. Eight-year-old Bram Content arrives from the Netherlands speaking almost no English, and finds, behind his family's tailor shop, a boy named Otis Freeman and a rusted rake that will change the whole shape of his life.Across a line neither of them drew, through a segregated high school, a fiercely fought rivalry, and a war that scatters them to opposite corners of the Pacific, Bram and Otis measure out three decades of American life one inning at a time - box scores and heartbreak, tragedy and stubborn joy, a home run each of them waits a lifetime to finally hit.Spanning the Great Depression to the 2005 World Series, The Home Run is a novel about the game that outlasts every era it's played in - and the friendships sturdy enough to outlast the lines drawn to keep them apart.For readers who believe the best stories take a lifetime to finish.