Aging, divorced, and alone, Dorsey McWhorter signs a free-agent contract with the Cleveland Indians, placing him on the launching pad for an apparent career-ending tailspin. As Dorsey confronts his private demons, a simple lesson comes to mind once taught him by Walter Mobley, a former Negro Leagues player and his mentor. Dorsey embraces the lesson, remembering how it worked in the past, and experiences an epiphany. Dorsey suddenly becomes the hottest hitter in baseball, putting together a consecutive games hitting streak that rivals Joe DiMaggio’s record of 56. In the process he rediscovers the joy of baseball and begins to find happiness off the field. The Streak isn’t just a baseball novel, rather a study of one man’s struggle to regain a life that didn’t turn out as planned. Dorsey McWhorter is a memorable character readers will identify with and pull for because of his offbeat views and, foremost, his heart.
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Bill Chastain began his journalism career as a freelance writer shortly after graduating from Georgia Tech in 1979. Some of the more notable publications where his stories have appeared over the years include: Razor Magazine, Nation's Business, SPORT Magazine, and Inside Sports. Chastain worked as a sports reporter for The St. Petersburg Times and The St. Petersburg Evening Independent before going to The Tampa Tribune in 1990, where he worked for twelve years as a columnist and sports reporter. While with the Tribune he also served as a correspondent for Sports Illustrated. Currently he covers Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays for MLB.com.
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Lonesome Dove for Baseball Fans,
By Samuel K. Snedegar (Pensacola, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Streak (Paperback)
A baseball player is some athlete dumb enough to stand there and let some other player aim very hard and unyielding horsehide projectiles in the vicinity of his body at 100 miles per hour.Chastain's Dorsey McWhorter stays in that character as he stumbles and fumbles his way into your heart and into your days until, when the book ends and as in real life nearly everything is still unresolved, you find that you are going to miss Dorsey and miss your sessions with this wonderful book. It's not great literature, and it's not the kind of language you want your pre-puberty teens to be spouting about the house, but it is well crafted and well-written, and you find yourself pulling for Dorsey even as you recognize him as a selfish and utterly stupid lout. I guess it's his good heart and his childlike approach to both baseball and life that affects you. Whatever it is, like McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, The Streak is a book that I hated to see end, because it was pure enjoyment of the reading experience from start to finish, and I will miss it until enough time has passed to go back and read it again.
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