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Author up! UT Instructor to Sign Baseball Book |
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Shannon Coon |
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Sep 22, 2004 |
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Terence O’Leary, UT instructor of public health and rehabilitative services, will sign copies of his book, More Than a Game, at Thackeray’s Books on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m.
The novel is about Brian McBride, a graduating high school senior, who is coping with his grandfather dying of cancer and is torn between playing baseball professionally as his father wishes and going to a university to study nanotechnology as his mother wants.
After deciding to go to college, he agrees to play baseball over the summer for a top minor-league team (modeled after the Toledo Mud Hens) to appease his father. As the summer unfolds, events pull Brian back and forth about what he should do in his future.
“The idea for the novel came to me as I was pitching batting practices to my son,” O’Leary said. “I thought of the bond baseball forms between fathers and sons and how the game brings families together.”
The Toledo native said he decided to base his novel in Toledo because “More Than a Game is a reflection of the family values we have in Toledo.”
O’Leary is a 1972 UT graduate. He has taught karate and stick fighting classes at his alma mater for 28 years.
Copies of More Than a Game will be for sale at Thackeray’s Books. There also will be time during the event for readers to ask the author questions. “In fact, I’m really looking forward to the questions readers have about my novel and writing,” O’Leary said.
For more information, contact Thackeray’s Books at 419.537.9259.
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