CannaCorn by Con Chapman

By Con Chapman

The Worcester Quahogs are a mediocre minor league staff owned by means of Bud Templeton and controlled by way of his son Trey, who's made govt vp through his father with a view to supply the feckless younger guy a task. Trey makes use of the adventure as fodder for a e-book approximately baseball that he hopes will win him literary reputation. he's distracted from this dream by means of Nae Ann Embree, a cheerleader for the group who turns into the point of interest of a love quadrangle between Trey, Chip Hilton, a white first base prospect, and Delfayo Newbill, a black slugger despatched down from the mum or dad membership because of his hair-trigger mood. The romantic catch-and-release that follows combines of America’s so much cherished local items; baseball and screwball comedy. CannaCorn is decided in Worcester, Mass. within the early years of the twenty-first century.

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