Product Description
"In 2023, four eleven-year-old friends, Jerry ""Tags"" Taglia, Paul ""Paulie"" Beacon, his twin brother Lights, and Peter ""Capisce"" Capiscio are frustrated and depressed at the failings of their baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. But with Tags leading the way, the boys hatch a plan to ""kidnap"" the only person they believe who can help the star lefty Red Sox pitcher overcome his wildness and help salvage a hopeless, fading season.

Before They Were Champs is a Young Adult story and prequel to my novel, The Year They Won. In Before They Were Champs, the boys and Twotails the cat embark on an adventurous journey from small town Belmont, Massachusetts, to the woods of Vermont. There, aged ex-Sox left-handed pitching great, Spaceman, lives. Undaunted by intense summer heat, torrential rain, lightening, speeding trains, snakes, prickly bushes, and night monsters, they trek north, knowing their team's season relies on one man's knowledge."