One Season in the Sun - (Gemma Open Door) by Joe Schuster (Paperback)

About the Book

These are the tales of one-season wonders, players who are epic then fade away. Here are stories of the brief moments when, for an afternoon, a week, a couple of months, they stood on the field with the best of the best in the game.

Book Synopsis

The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names: players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, land at the edges of the game. Some spend a week or two in the major leagues and then disappear back into the minors. Many leave the sport for good. Still, for an afternoon, a week, or a couple of months, these men stood on the field alongside the best players in The Show. Here are gripping stories of their brief moments in the sun.

Review Quotes

"Far from being just about baseball, The Might-Have-Been is about the persistence of ambition and dreams in both sports and civilian life. This is a very telling novel about American pastimes and American identities, well worth reading."[br] --Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

"Surely [The Might-Have-Been is] destined to join the ranks of transcendent baseball novels."[br] --Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls

About the Author

Joe Schuster teaches at Webster University. His short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and The Missouri Review, among others, and his articles have been published in USA Today, St. Louis Post Dispatch and the revered, retired Sport. His novel The Might-Have Beens was published 2012.

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