A young natural named Mickey Tussler is recruited in the 1940's to play for a minor league affiliate of the Boston Braves. He has the greatest arm Arthur Murphy has ever seen, the greatest arm anybody has ever seen, including his new teammates. But Mickey's parents aren't so supportive of the idea of their son playing minor league baseball. As great as he is, neither are some of his teammates. Mickey's autism is prohibitive, and keeps him sealed off from a world he scarcely understands. Lost both in the memory of his former life with an abusive father and the challenges of a new world filled with incessant heckling from some of his teammates, opponents and fans, Mickey flounders. But his inimitable talent -- one of the most gifted arms in the history of baseball -- endures. Can he survive a real life dream? Or are the harsh realities of life too much for a young man like him? This is the powerful underdog story of how a young man with an extraordinary gift comes of age in a harsh and competitive world.

Echoes From The Infantry

Echoes from the Infantry is the tale of one Long Island World War II veteran, the misery of combat, and the powerful emotional bonds that brought him home.It is about a father and a son, and their ultimately redeeming struggle to understand each other's worlds - one a world at war, the other a world shaped by its veterans ...

All James McCleary wants to do is forget the horrors of the battlefield. All his son John wants is to know his father.

But memory is unforgiving, and James remains locked inside his own mind, unable to embrace his wife and children as he would like to. Meanwhile John wrestles with troubling recollections of life with this enigmatic man he calls his father.

Now the death of John's mother draws the men together for a final showdown. As he sifts through family artifacts in his parent's attic, the disgruntled son gets a glimpse of the eternally frozen battlefields that left his father scarred,and of the quiet, secret love that sustained him across the wasted expanse of wartime Europe.