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Big Jim Stronge -

His father said he'd be the best pitcher ever.
His mother believed he would take his place in the family line of concert pianists.
After nineteen years in the majors, most ballplayers would consider themselves successful, but Jim Stronge doesn't. His choice of baseball over music haunts him. He's forty-one, and he still hasn't done what he always believed he would; win thirty games in a season and be remembered as the best pitcher ever.
When the Yankees cut him, it seems like the end. All that remains of the dream is a scrap of paper on which his old coach writes the words, “Vigil T. Mann, Sunshine, Alabama .”
The Vitaman Effect is a baseball story, but it's really about the “spirits of the air”, and the way we struggle to find our way in a world almost devoid of belief. As Vigil T. Mann says, - “Sometimes things don’ go the way they should. That’s when you got to stop aimin’, throw the ball and let the spirits take it from there.”


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Print version release date August 30, 2008