Season of Preacher Jack

Description:

During the Summer of 1961, the sports world watches as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris race to break Babe Ruth's home run record. In the semi-rural South, a boy, "almost twelve"--Caught in the middle of his parents' disintegrating marriage--and a disenchanted preacher, who has left the ministry and opened a country store/gas station near the boy's home, begin to follow the home run race and form a bond, and Preacher Jack becomes one of those people who touches a life only briefly, but whose influence lingers for a lifetime.

subjects: Fiction,  Baseball fans,  Baseball players,  Marriage,  Life change events,  Summer,  Sports,  Divorce,  Friendship,  Base-ball,  Romans, nouvelles,  Supporters,  Joueurs de base-ball,  Mariage,  Événements stressants de la vie

People: Mickey Mantle (1931-1995),  Roger Maris (1934-1985),  Babe Ruth (1895-1948)

Places: Southern States,  États-Unis (Sud)