Ask a Bookseller: 'Fathers, Sons and the Holy Ghosts of Baseball'

Ask a Bookseller · Dec 17, 2022 · 2m

You don’t have to live in a small town or even like baseball to enjoy Tommy Murray’s novel, “Fathers, Sons, and the Holy Ghosts of Baseball,” says Lisa Deyo of Sweet Reads. Set in small-town Iowa in 1974, the novel focuses on three elderly baseball coaches determined to see the Holy Trinity High School team win the state baseball championship for the first time, despite the odds. The book reminded Deyo of the film “Grumpy Old Men.” “It turned out to be one of my favorite books this year,” says Deyo. It's a town where baseball is religion. One of the coaches, a Catholic priest, makes the team…