In Francis "Mack" McKyer's life, ever since he can remember, spring has always meant baseball. He can't imagine what he would do if that were taken away from him. And fairly shortly his place on the Lincoln High baseball team becomes the least of his problems. Season 3 of this series of sports themed novels picks up the threads of Mack's life as he moves toward the completion of his junior year at Lincoln High School. For a moment Mack and his friends enjoy basking in the close of a successful basketball season, a ...
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In Francis "Mack" McKyer's life, ever since he can remember, spring has always meant baseball. He can't imagine what he would do if that were taken away from him. And fairly shortly his place on the Lincoln High baseball team becomes the least of his problems. Season 3 of this series of sports themed novels picks up the threads of Mack's life as he moves toward the completion of his junior year at Lincoln High School. For a moment Mack and his friends enjoy basking in the close of a successful basketball season, a conclusion that had seemed very uncertain a few months earlier. But troubles are brewing and once again Mack finds himself in the middle. His future as a baseball player is in serious jeopardy, the environment at the high school takes a sudden turn or two and is no longer so friendly. Relationships, particularly with the females in his life, become increasingly complicated. Before the year is over he will find himself in a no win struggle with adversarial authority, question basic issues of the meaning of friendship, sexual identity and some of his assumptions about his future directions.
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