{"product_id":"you-cant-sell-right-field-a-cape-cod-novel-9780999173701","title":"You Can't Sell Right Field: A Cape Cod Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEvery small resort town in America faces huge development pressures. This is the story of one such town.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e In the summer resort town of Vermouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, Cletis Bord is the town garbageman and the shortstop on the Townies softball team in the Vermouth Softball League. His best friend, Bobby Linster, the second baseman, just sold the Linster family land that is the right field of their longtime softball field. You can't sell right field. Can you?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e You can if a well-dressed slick-talking developer claiming to be an heir to Walt Disney comes spreading money around like lottery winnings to 19 Vermouth landowners, including the Linster family. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e And that's how Cletis Bord, an unambitious stoner got involved with other town characters, and even an endangered species, trying to win an election to stop a zoning change that would allow a huge development to change his hometown forever. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Set during a softball season pennant race during an idyllic summer on Cape Cod, You Can't Sell Right Field follows the Townies as they split apart over the zoning change and try to come together to win softball games and the championship. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e By the end of this love story for his hometown, Cletis, the narrator, finds his own version of love, grows up some and learns an important lesson about small-town democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Tarcy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cape Cod Wave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999173701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrian Tarcy is co-founder of Cape Cod Wave online magazine (CapeCodWave.com). He is a longtime journalist who has written for the Boston Globe, Boston magazine, the Cape Cod Times and several other publications. He is also the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including books with celebrity athletes Cam Neely, Tom Glavine and Joe Theisman. His previous book was a non-fiction business thriller, \"ALMOST: 12 Electric Months Chasing A Silicon Valley Dream\" with Hap Klopp, who created the iconic brand, The North Face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cape Cod Wave","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42874212843635,"sku":"9.781E+12","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_9f3e6641-f6fa-4b42-ab9e-2392233d0767.jpg?v=1740526742","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/you-cant-sell-right-field-a-cape-cod-novel-9780999173701","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}