{"product_id":"9780982370315","title":"Cannacorn","description":"The Worcester Quahogs are a mediocre minor league baseball team owned by Bud Templeton and mismanaged by his son, Trey, who is installed as Executive Vice President to give the feckless young man a purpose in life.\u003cp\u003eTo his father's surprise, Trey takes to the job with relish and uses the experience as fodder for a book about Our National Pastime that he hopes will win him literary fame. He is distracted from this dream, and the charms of his fiancée, by one Nae Ann Embree, a cheerleader hired by his father in violation of the game's traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNae Ann becomes the focus of a love quadrangle among: Trey; Chip Hilton, a white first base prospect whom she lives with; and Delfayo Newbill, a black slugger sent down from the parent club due to his hair-trigger temper. The romantic catch-and-release combines two of America's most beloved native products: baseball and screwball comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCon Chapman is a Boston-area writer and playwright. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is the author of The Year of the Gerbil: How the Yankees Won (and the Red Sox Lost) the Greatest Pennant Race Ever, a history of the 1978 Red Sox-Yankees season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis plays The Little Theatre and The Undertakers Club, for middle and high school audiences, are published by Eldridge Publishing and Brooklyn Publishers, respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis trilogy of plays about hockey-Please, Pope; Number One Hockey Mom; and What Mickey Belle Isle Told You-is published by JAC Publishing, as is A Guy Walks Into a Bar, a trilogy of plays about drinking: The Writer and the Talker, Let Me Buy You a Drink, and The Night of the Grasshopper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis humor has appeared in magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and The Boston Globe Magazine, and he is a frequent contributor to the Boston Herald. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis humor appears on-line at News Groper, Amazon Shorts, and Flak Magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joshua Tree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013677695216,"sku":"9780982370315","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982370315_p0.jpg?v=1763891690","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982370315","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}