Southpaw — Frank King

SOUTHPAW THE BIG LEAGUE HORROR NOVELTHE WINNING SEASONDominic Lombardi remembers the summer of '63. It was the year he managed the Wolves to the league championship. It was the year they won it all.THE DEADLY SEASONThe summer of '88 is the season it all might happen again. Bunny Bunsen has inherited the team, and with a sharp business sense, has rebuilt the organization. For the first time in 25 years, the Wolves have it together.THE SEASON OF THE WEREWOLFAll the evidence suggests that there is something out there that doesn't care if the team wins or loses . . . only if they survive. (Frank King) is a superior writer . . . His pose is sharp, clear, untouched by rhetoric or cliché. --The New York Times