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    One Season in the Sun

    By Joe Schuster

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    When Mark Buehrle threw his perfect game against Tampa Bay, it was DeWayne Wise, the ninth inning White Sox defensive sub who made the leaping, back against the wall catch of a fly ball, robbing Gabe Kapler of a home run and preserving Buehrle’s achievement. Until that moment, Wise was virtually anonymous. Yet for that one moment in July, Wise moved into the spotlight and The Los Angeles Times called his one of the top ten moments in sports for 2009. But when the season ended, Wise was a free agent, able to sign only a minor league deal. He went to Toronto. The history of baseball is filled with players like Wise—players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, hang at the edges of the game. Some manage to spend only a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport. These are the tales of one-season wonders. Here are stories of the brief moments when, for an afternoon, a week, a couple of months, they stood on the field with the best of the best in the game
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGemma Open Door
    Release dateAug 17, 2012
    ISBN9781936846269
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    One Season in the Sun
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    Joe Schuster

    Joe Schuster’s short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and The Missouri Review, among others, and his articles have been published in USA Today, St. Louis Post Dispatch and the revered, retired Sport. The New York Times Book Review described his novel The Might-Have Been as a “meticulously peopled tale of opportunities lost.” Publishers Weekly said “Schuster examines, without succumbing to sentiment or an easy resolution, the cost of chasing a dream.” Jackie Robinson is Joe’s second book in the Gemma Open Door Series, following the success of One Season in the Sun.

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