BOOK RELEASE PARTY – Thursday – October 9, 123 Pleasant Street with Music – Food- Chico Softball Merchandise – Season-Ending Awards Ceremony
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING:
INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW – Reviewed by Warren Maxwell, September 24, 2025
Hilarious, warmhearted, bite-sized stories of a cult softball team from West Virginia
“…a dash of the tall tale, the frenzied sports announcer, and the romantic writer who can memorialize the most insignificant moments, lift up failure, laugh at it, and love it…”
“…I’ve never read a book quite like this one. It has charm, wit, adventure, and a strange anthropologic intrigue. It is a record of a unique kind of community, one that centers around sports yet values friendship and joy above anything as commonplace and shallow as winning…”
“…it’s difficult not to get swept up in the mythology of this rambunctious team…”
“…an explosive array of photos of all shapes and sizes clustered on pages alongside ever-expanding paragraph-long game summaries, grabs the eye and invites readers to bounce from story to story…”
“…the book exudes a rules-be-damned attitude that emphasizes fun over any specific method for reading…”
“…there’s a special beauty to this book that comes from a sheer of-the-moment authenticity…”
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