Havana Heat

by Darryl Brock

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In 1911 America, the golden age of baseball, real-life pitcher Luther "Dummy" Taylor is trying to work his arm back into fighting shape after an injury relegates him to the minors. He dreams of one last shot at the big leagues while on a barnstorming trip to Cuba. He faces off against the tough Havana teams. . .and meets a deaf Cuban boy with a spectacular pitching arm. In young Luis, Taylor sees his chance for redemption.

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Darryl Brock lives with his wife in Berkeley, California, where he is currently at work on a sequel to "If I Never Get Back" (1990). (Bowker Author Biography)

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Canonical title
Havana Heat
Important places
Cuba

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3552 .R58 .H38Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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