Home Run

by

Linda Zimmermann

Jupiter Books

Cover Art: Gordon Bond

Copyright 2000 by Linda Zimmermann

Smashwords Edition 2013 ISBN: 978-1-937174-21-7

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Dedication

To those long summer nights at the lake

listening to baseball games with my dad,

and to the ‘69 Mets who taught me

that anything is possible.

Chapter 1

“Today marks my fourth year on this godforsaken flyspeck, which makes my rescue team about three and a half years late. You would have thought I would have given up hope after a couple of years. But hope is the damnedest thing, like a chronic rash that itches only after you’ve forgotten about it.”