Title: I Never Played Catch with My Father
Author: Cartwright, Gene; Ortman, Lisa (editor)
Publisher: Baldwin Park, CA, U.S.A.: Falcon Creek Publishing Company, 1996, Baldwin Park, CA, U.S.A.
Publication year: 1996
Condition: Fine
Dust jacket: Good +
Signed: Signed & Inscribed By Author
Binding: Hard Cover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0964975602
ISBN 13: 9780964975606
Edition: 2nd Printing.

A Most Incredible Story of Love, Memories, Regret, Forgiveness, and Redemption.
THE BOOK MOTHERS GIVE FATHERS & SONS

I Never Played Catch With My Father is a life-changing story for mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons. The book led to an Oprah Show invitation for guest author Gene Cartwright. It reads like real life.

When fame and fortune are not enough.
A successful man's love of baseball provides him with memories of a childhood without a close heart-and-soul connection with his strict father but loving father. He learns that success and fame can purchase memories of things that never were.

Our Dedication Edition was published on June 17. On June 18, we lost Willie Mays, who was, by all measure, the greatest all-around baseball player to ever take the baseball field.

I Never Played Catch With My Father is about more than playing catch. This father-son story is about life that passes all too quickly. It is also about mothers, sons, and daughters and the importance of connecting with your children. while there is time.
Play With Your Kids. Playing Catch helps build relationships.
Mothers and women, in general, are our more dedicated buyers.
Women make sure the men in their lives read this book.

I Never Played Catch With My Father is a moving story of fathers and sons, forgiveness, and redemption.
A baseball book for Father's Day and every day proves there are no insignificant moments in a child's life.
For anyone with a beating heart.

SEE BOOK VIDEO: https://youtu.be/g6x74XgCu48

From Prolific, Pulitzer-nominated Author Gene Cartwright:
Based on a true story, this novel is about more than baseball, fathers and sons
It's about mothers and daughters, family, parenting
It's about time that is gone too soon

This novel, based on a true story, is about more than baseball and about more than fathers and sons. You cannot read it and ever be the same. This novel is also about mothers and daughters, about parents and children—about time that passes all too quickly. This heart-touching, inspiring saga reveals that there are no insignificant events in a child's life.

James T. Phalen is a wealthy baby-boomer with a lifelong love of baseball and a passion for helping those less fortunate. When he realizes that all his wealth and fame cannot purchase a memory never created, he leaves his executive suite and catches the "last train home" to try and complete the circle with his ailing father.

Play with your children. The years pass in the blink of an eye.

See This Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuStnpR-VjE
Author's website: GeneCartwrightBooks.com

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About the Author

Pulitzer-nominated, former Oprah guest. See complete details at GeneCartwright.com.

Gene Cartwright, a native of Texas. He often says it was his great fortune to be born at the right address--his parents.

Gene shared these loving parents with seven siblings. He insists his love of writing and learning was sparked by his mother, who taught him to read when he was barely four. It was his father who, together with his mother, taught him, and all the Cartwright children what to do with the knowledge gained, and to love each other unconditionally.

Gene was fascinated, captured by the freedom reading afforded. What was more, he read and was inspired to put his own words to paper. He has always enjoyed both technical and literary pursuits. He wrote his first novel at 12. (90 pages longhand.)

Gene graduated high school and headed immediately to college (Prairie View A&M.)

Four years later, and for almost 8 years thereafter, during what he now refers to as another life, Gene was an electrical engineer, designing lighting and power distribution systems. A few years later, he saddled up and headed west.

Throughout his engineering pursuits and business activities, Gene continued to write and dream of being a published and a fulltime author. In 1996, that dream was realized. Gene has written 8 novels and several screenplays. For two years, his book tour for 'I Never Played Catch With My Father,' took him from coast to coast:

He has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Oprah, NPR stations and countless tv morning shows, news and sports shows. He has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

Gene was the featured author in Ebony Magazine in the November '97 issue.

Finally, Gene's greatest childhood thrill was his very first little league baseball game. And his pet peeve? Something he labels sacrilegious: the use of the aluminum baseball bats.

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