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About this bookGeorge Grant is a 15-year-old farm boy who is struck by lightning while helping his dad with the summer harvest. His dad is killed but George survives with burns on his arms and back. When the burns heal George and his younger brother Roy resume their baseball practices. That fall George is a high school sophomore and his goal is to pitch for the high school baseball team.George has lingering effects from the lightning strike. When...
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It's been 35 years since George Grant graduated from high school. In that long-ago summer an essential farm worker left and George was unable to quickly find a replacement. He had to forego college and give up his dream to play professional baseball. The top priority was to keep the farm running. His brother Roy was still in high school.It takes more than a year to find a replacement farm worker and by then George and Marcy Caldwell, his high school...
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THE AMAZING PLAYER is the fifth novel in the George Grant Series. When George was 15 he was struck by lightning. Doctors said the residual tingles in his arms and hands would soon fade away. George is 55 and he still has them. The only people who know that are his wife, his brother and his brother's wife. The tingles give George extra strength and greater accuracy when he pitches a baseball. He rarely throws anything but a strike. His vision was affected...
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George Grant is a farm boy who is struck by lightning while helping his dad harvest grain. His dad is killed, but George recovers with lingering effects that cause him to get tingles in his hands and arms whenever he throws a baseball or lifts anything heavy. The tingles make him stronger and give him great speed and accuracy when pitching a baseball. His vision is also affected and he now sees a baseball in flight moving like it is in slow motion.This...
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GEORGE GRANT RETIRED from baseball after leading a professional team to back-to-back World Series Championships. George is content to return to his first love-farming. He's looking forward to getting back on a tractor and helping with the spring planting. That won't happen for two months. In early March George and Marcy plan to spend several days visiting with their friends Toby and Mona Corbet. Toby is the baseball coach at the State University in...
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