The Dog Sox

I was rolling my eyes in the beginning… the woman being too much of a fantasy. But it’s a sweet enough book. Baseball is always good. There is NO crime though, so that was weird.......more

Ray Adams has a different approach when he buys a gift for his girl friend Ava Belle. Ava loves dogs and baseball so Ray buys her a baseball team. The team is named The Knight's Landing Dog Sox. The team’s manager is a 70-year old Jewish man who has a number of colorful phrases that he repeats from......more

Nominated for the MWA's Edgar Award for Best Paperback original, this is a book that my husband actually read before I did. Ray Adams buys a Central Valley minor league baseball team for his beautiful, beer loving girlfriend Ava. Problems developed when their star pitcher's estranged father comes ba......more

Great baseball book. It's classified as crime fiction by the publisher but that's a bit of a stretch, even though it is nominated for an Edgar Award this year The closest to a crime might be an attempted murder but it's really not the focus of the book. This is a character driven novel and the chara......more