{"product_id":"9781935171317","title":"Backstop","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou know Backstop. He plays for any team in any city in America with a major league ball club. You cheer him when he delivers, and boo him when he doesn't. In what could be his last game after 14 years in the major leagues-the seventh game of the World Series-Backstop chronicles his rookie season, takes the reader to Chicago where he finds romance, and reveals the heartbreak he endured in the aftermath of an adulterous affair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFellow Michigan writer and author of Landscape with Fragmented Figures Jeff Vande Zande writes of Backstop: \"J. Conrad Guest offers an entertaining and instructive journey into both major league baseball and major league matters of the heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Rachael Perry, also a Michigan writer, says, \"Baseball, like love, is a game of errors and regrets. Pop-outs, ground-outs, strike-outs. A bad swing, a bad throw, a bad hop. But what captivates us most is the possibility of the next at-bat, of the chance for a rally, of an unlikely clutch play that suddenly changes the stakes. This is where J. Conrad Guest meets us in Backstop: in this beautiful, hopeful place closest to our hearts, where we play for the love of the game, and we love with everything we have.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Second Wind Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019606507760,"sku":"9781935171317","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935171317_p0.jpg?v=1763657947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935171317","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}