Hitting Life's Curveballs

“Although I read the paperback version, I had the privilege of listening to the audiobook narrated superbly by the author himself. His smooth radio-voice adds intrigue and emotion into the story.”

~ Susie Q. (Amazon)

“I absolutely loved the audiobook [and] highly recommend it for anyone looking for great historical fiction. Also, if you love baseball, then you will like it even more.”

~ Miranda S. (Goodreads)

About the Book

EDITORIAL REVIEW

Hitting Life’s Curveballs is a riveting coming of age story set in the American south and Italy’s northern Tuscany region. While a world war raged, the young lovers, Will and his Lena Horne-look-alike lover, Dena, are beset by face-to-face confrontations with class and race prejudice.

Will, a local baseball hero, is forced to flee for his life by race violence and joins soldiers fighting for the right to fight in America’s armed forces. Will enters combat in Tuscany with the 92nd Infantry Division and is joined by Italian Partisans in the fighting to liberate Italy from their former ally, the Germans.

After researching a story told by an uncle and World War II veteran, author Bob Rogers reveals the little-known matter of Major General Edward M. Almond’s failures while commanding the 92nd and why his soldiers regarded him as their worse enemy after the Germans.