Castro's Curveball

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U of Nebraska Press, Jul 25, 2006 - Fiction - 286 pages
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 Billy Bryan is playing winter ball in Cuba, his future as uncertain as that island country's. Then one fateful night Bryan witnesses a young student radical named Fidel unleash an amazing curveball. So begins Billy's tug-of-war with destiny....
 

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Section 1
3
Section 2
8
Section 3
9
Section 4
22
Section 5
23
Section 6
33
Section 7
50
Section 8
51
Section 18
161
Section 19
168
Section 20
177
Section 21
189
Section 22
198
Section 23
199
Section 24
212
Section 25
213

Section 9
69
Section 10
76
Section 11
77
Section 12
87
Section 13
108
Section 14
117
Section 15
121
Section 16
134
Section 17
151
Section 26
220
Section 27
230
Section 28
239
Section 29
251
Section 30
257
Section 31
265
Section 32
271
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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. For more information on Tim Wendel, visit his Web site http://www.timwendel.com.

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