Dead Man's Land by Jack Patterson (digital e reader .txt) 📕

Dale Murphy while I lived in England. Though I never had the natural talent to make it to the Major Leagues, I made it a goal to work there as a writer—and it’s there that I got to peek behind the curtain, which helped make for vivid and realistic portrayal of life as a professional baseball player.

I’d like to thank Joe Kelly and Nathan Krohn of the Boise Hawks and the Colorado Rockies organization for allowing me access to their players and get behind the scenes. Hamlet Marte, Steven Leonard and Colin Welmon were gracious in sharing their experiences with me about their time in the minor leagues.

Ben Badler from Baseball America was also helpful in ensuring authenticity in describing life in Cuba for baseball players there.

As always, Jennifer Wolf helped craft this manuscript into something better than I imagined. And Dan Pitts did another wonderful job in capturing the look and feel of Cuba for the cover.

And to you the reader—thanks for reading!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JACK PATTERSON is an award-winning writer living in southeastern Idaho. He first began his illustrious writing career as a sports journalist, recording his exploits on the soccer fields in England as a young boy. Then when his father told him that people would pay him to watch sports if he would write about what he saw, he went all in. He landed his first writing job at age 15 as a sports writer for a daily newspaper in Orangeburg, S.C. He later attended earned a degree in newspaper journalism from the University of Georgia, where he took a job covering high school sports for the award-winning Athens Banner-Herald and Daily News.

He later became the sports editor of The Valdosta Daily Times before working in the magazine world as an editor and freelance journalist. He has won numerous writing awards, including a national award for his investigative reporting on a sordid tale surrounding an NCAA investigation over the University of Georgia football program.

Jack enjoys the great outdoors of the Northwest while living there with his wife and three children. He still follows sports closely.

He also loves connecting with readers and would love to hear from you. To stay updated about future projects, connect with him over Facebook or on the interwebs at www.IamJackPatterson.com and sign up here for his newsletter to get deals and updates.

DEAD MAN'S LAND

© Copyright 2015 Jack Patterson

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

eBook ISBN: 978-1-938848-66-7

First eBook Edition 2015

Cover Design by Dan Pitts

Published in the United States of America

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