Boys Of Summer
Early March, three weeks before Opening Day
WHAT JANIE NOLAN knew about baseball could be summed up in three words: zip, zero and zilch. She'd never liked sports of any kind, being far too focused on what her family called her "causes" to much care if some guy hit a ball with a stick farther than some other guy hit a ball with a stick.
So the fact that she'd ended up running a sports memorabilia shop called Round The Bases, which was primarily focused on Louisville's Major League Baseball team, the Slammers, made as much sense as if she'd decided to become a stripper.And even with her very early-in-the-alphabet cup size, she'd probably still have had a better shot at a pole-dancing career than of preventing her brother's store from going under while he served in the military.
Aside from Janie's blood, sweat and tears, there was only one thing keeping the shop afloat, and that was the elderly man sitting across from her on the lawn of Bluegrass Retirement Village. Her personal walking baseball encyclopedia.
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