Synopses & Reviews
In the summer of 1967, Cyrus Nygerski, nineteen and "the best left-handed second baseman in Wisconsin," unsuspectingly meets his first werewolf. andlt;BRandgt; Six hours later, she is sitting next to him in Comiskey Park, watching the Red Sox play the White Sox on August 27th, but by the time Boston outfielder Josand#233; Tartabull fires his famous, game-winning throw to home, the mysterious beauty is suddenly disappearing into the crowd. Nygerski is frantic. The next morning he reads about her in a Chicago paper, though not by name: there's no mention of Cassandra Paine-only of a vicious murder back in Beloit of a man who, in another version of events, appears to be very much alive and out for Nygerski's blood. andlt;BRandgt; Among Cassandra's abilities is time travel. Nygerski learns of this later (or is it earlier?) on the seacoast of Maine where she introduces him to her family and the tantalizing legend of Howley's Deep Hole, a portal into an alternate time line that sweeps him to the heights of rookie season stardom. It's then-and at a terrifying cost-that he earns the nickname "Moon-dog." Even Cassandra can't foresee the prophecy in that. andlt;BRandgt; Henry Garfield interweaves a classic Red Sox pennant race, the supernatural, a love and coming-of-age story, and a memorable cast of earthly and unearthly characters into a treat for baseball fans, horror buffs, devotees of science fiction, and lovers of suspense.
Synopsis
In the summer of 1967, Cyrus Nygerski, nineteen and "the best left-handed second baseman in Wisconsin," unsuspectingly meets his first werewolf.
Six hours later, she is sitting next to him in Comiskey Park, watching the Red Sox play the White Sox on August 27th, but by the time Boston outfielder José Tartabull fires his famous, game-winning throw to home, the mysterious beauty is suddenly disappearing into the crowd. Nygerski is frantic. The next morning he reads about her in a Chicago paper, though not by name: there's no mention of Cassandra Paine-only of a vicious murder back in Beloit of a man who, in another version of events, appears to be very much alive and out for Nygerski's blood.
Among Cassandra's abilities is time travel. Nygerski learns of this later (or is it earlier?) on the seacoast of Maine where she introduces him to her family and the tantalizing legend of Howley's Deep Hole, a portal into an alternate time line that sweeps him to the heights of rookie season stardom. It's then-and at a terrifying cost-that he earns the nickname "Moon-dog." Even Cassandra can't foresee the prophecy in that.
Henry Garfield interweaves a classic Red Sox pennant race, the supernatural, a love and coming-of-age story, and a memorable cast of earthly and unearthly characters into a treat for baseball fans, horror buffs, devotees of science fiction, and lovers of suspense.
Synopsis
Cyrus Nygerski is nineteen when he meets his first werewolf. Not knowing her secret, he asks her to a 1967 Red Sox vs. White Sox game in Chicago -- a historic game, as it happens, for Red Sox fans like Nygerski, a minor league second baseman himself. But Jose Tartabull's game-winning throw on August 27 is just one of several spectacular events of Nygerski's summer. For it seems that he collides with Cassandra Paine, not once, but twice -- in New York City in April and in Beloit, Wisconsin, the day of the famous game. And each time, he discovers, she's running away from a murder. Cassandra can foresee the future, but she cannot alter the past -- and it is that which freewheels the two into a whirlwind of pulse-heightening suspense, some brilliant baseball, and the dangers of life and dying, in an alternate, nonlinear time that saves Cassandra from her nightmare and hands Nygerski his dream.
About the Author
Henry Garfield was born in Philadelphia and moved with his family to the Maine coast in time for the 1967 pennant race. A role in a fourth-grade production of
Antigone gave him insight into the tragic nature of human existence and prepared him for life as a fan of the Boston Red Sox.
Garfield has attended three colleges and held numerous jobs. At various times he has worked as a journalist, school bus driver, sailing instructor, construction laborer, writing teacher, fish packer, telemarketer, and member of a grounds crew. He is an amateur actor and an even more amateur guitar player.
After spending sixteen years in San Diego, California, he moved to Belfast, Maine, in time to watch the Red Sox lose the 1999 American League Championship seriesto the Yankees. He lives with his son and daughter. Tartabull's Throw is his third novel. The others, Room 13 and Moondog, continue the story of Cyrus Nygerski and both are available in Aladdin paperback editions.
Table of Contents
andlt;Bandgt;Contentsandlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;PART ONE: andlt;Bandgt;Augustandlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;OL TYPE="1" START="1"andgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Out Like Ted Williamsandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Rhondaandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Cassandraandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Tartabull's Throw -- Iandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;On the Streets of Chicagoandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The Morning Afterandlt;BRandgt;andlt;/OLandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;PART TWO: andlt;Bandgt;The Dream Seasonandlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;OL TYPE="1" START="7"andgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The Kid Brotherandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Aunt Pollyandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Jake Weed's Storyandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The Holeandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;A Deer in the Woodsandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Full Moonandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;New York, New Yorkandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The No-hitterandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The Best Left-handed Second Baseman in Wisconsinandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The Fireandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Home Run for the Moneyandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Hector Fallsandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Nine Days in Augustandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;In Rhonda's Roomandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Last Game in Beloitandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Tartabull's Throw -- IIandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The End of the Dreamandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;The Fallandlt;BRandgt;andlt;/OLandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;BRandgt;PART THREE: andlt;Bandgt;Septemberandlt;/Bandgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;OL TYPE="1" START="25"andgt;andlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Mendocino, California, 1995andlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Metamorphosisandlt;BRandgt;andlt;LIandgt;Season's Endandlt;BRandgt;andlt;/OLandgt;