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Calico Joe

par John Grisham

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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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While this is a fiction story and therefore outside my theme for this year of reading true stories, this is about the 1973 season between the Cubs and the Mets. The author has taken liberties with game schedules, rosters, baseball stats and even put in fictional players with real players.

That said, this is the story of a rising rookie baseball player, Joe Castle. He is nicknamed Calico Joe because he is from Calico Rock, Arkansas. He plays for the Cubs and is having a stellar rookie year with adoring fans far and wide, young and old.

One of his young fans is Paul Tracey. Paul's dad, Warren, pitches for the Mets. Paul is in the stands when his dad is pitching to his idol when everything goes horribly wrong.

The story continues with Paul as an adult and has been estranged from his father for years. He learns of his dad's cancer and decides he wants to try to get his dad and Joe together to reconcile.

This is a story about forgiveness, families and baseball. Even if you don't like baseball, it's a quick read and you'll be able to follow along. ( )
  Cathie_Dyer | Feb 29, 2024 |
Baseball
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Baseball
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Baseball story of an amazing rookie who played for the Cubs. He was breaking all kinds of records and had an outstanding career ahead of him. However, the narrator the story is the son of so so pitcher for the Mets who has low self-esteem and plays by the old ?ethics?. So when he pitches to Joe and Joe hits a HR, he decides he must retaliate and bean him. He hits Joe on the side of his head and ruins his career and his own. 30yrs later when the dad is dying of cancer, his son initiates a meeting between the two so his dad can apologize to Joe. Pretty good story, but a bit too lame in the end.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
(2012)Much better than the last book I read by Grisham. Story of a rookie baseball phenom who sets an unheard of streak of hitting when he comes up the the Cubs in 1973, only to have his career and almost his life cut short when Warren Tracey a middling pitcher for the Mets hits him in the head with a pitch. His son, 11 at the time, knows that it was deliberate. He tries to reconcile the events leading up to that pitch and what happened afterward. He succeeds 30 years later in bringing Joe Castle and his father together where his father sincerely apologizes for what he did to Joe. This is just before Warren dies of cancer. (Kirkus)Only one player in Major League Baseball history has been hit and killed by a pitch, but bean balls¥balls thrown near the headÂ¥have ended careers. Grisham's (The Litigators, 2011, etc.) novel imagines the act and its consequences.It's 1973, another magic baseball season. The National League East has six teams contending, among them the traditionally hapless Chicago Cubs, soon jinxed once again when its first baseman is injured. Now the Cubs must add a minor leaguer to the roster. That's Joe Castle, a kid from Calico Rock, Ark. Calico Joe immediately begins to set rookie records, leading the Cubs to the top of the standings. Watching from New York is Paul Tracey, a baseball fan as avid as only an 11-year-old boy can be. In fact, Paul's father pitches for the New York Mets, but Warren Tracey, ?accustomed to getting whatever he wanted,? is a jerk. Warren is a journeyman pitcher, solid in an occasional game, kicked around from one team to another, never an All Star. Warren also abuses his family, drinks and chases women. The novel unfolds from Paul's adult perspective, with flashbacks. The crucial plot point comes in a flashback when Calico Joe, putting up ?mind-boggling? numbers over 38 games, meets Warren in Shea Stadium and hits a home run. During his next at bat, as part of some unwritten ?code,? Warren goes head-hunting and beans the young player. Calico Joe's career is over, and he drifts home to Calico Rock, partially paralyzed, speech impeded, to work as a groundskeeper rather than earning a plaque in baseball's Hall of Fame. Decades later, long estranged from his father, Paul learns that Warren is dying of pancreatic cancer, and he decides to force his father to confront what he did to Joe Castle. Interestingly, the novel's most fully formed character is Warren, and while the narrative and settings are solid, the story drifts toward a somewhat unsatisfying, perhaps too easy, conclusion. A reconciliation story, Hallmark style.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
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Review Written by Bernie Weisz, Historian Pembroke Pines, Florida, U.S.A. September 30, 2012 Contact: BernWei1@aol.com Title of Review: The Code of Baseball, A Ruined Childhood & A Trip Down Memory Lane!
Anyone that became a teenager in the early 1970's will immediately take to John Grisham's "Calico Joe." Especially one that grew up in New York and liked baseball. I know, I was one of them. Grisham's book revolves around a washed up, aging picture for the New York Mets named Paul Tracy and his mercurial, volatile relationship with his son Paul. Added in is a rookie phenom for the Cubs named Joe Castle. Castle, dubbed "Calico Joe," sets major league records in his 1973 rookie debut for consecutive games safely hit. Paul Castle fell in love with Calico Joe, even keeping a scrapbook of his accolades unbeknownst to his father. Grisham portrays Warren as a philanderer, a beanball artist, a drunkard and an abusive husband and father. Shades of the Tony Conigliaro incident are introduced when the Cubs come into town to play the Mets with the National League East pennant on the line. With Paul and his disgruntled mother in the stands at Shea Stadium, the two watch as Castle goes up against his father after successfully pounding Warren for a hit his first time up.

The "code of baseball" is introduced, at least Warren's conception of it. If a batsman shows up the pitcher in any way the previous at bat, or is a cocky rookie, the next at bat will surely be a beanball. However, Warren was a cruel, mean "headhunter," and demanded Paul be like him in playing Little League. Without any remorse, the senior Tracy will throw at anyone's head as revenge, rarely missing. In Castle's second at bat, the lives of both the Castle and Tracy are forever changed. The ironies involved and the unpredictable twists of fate make this novel truly amazing. The names thrown out, e.g. Tom Seaver, Bobby Murcer, Ron Santo, Ferguson Jenkins, etc., bring back such vivid memories of a reader's lost youthhood that it is impossible to not love and embrace this fantastically written novel. Even more realistic are the memories Grisham introduces, such as his descriptions of the Long Island Railroad being ridden, Willets Point in Flushing and both old Shea and Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, etc., with fitting descriptions of the temperaments of the fans of each. Grisham fast forwards forty years later and cleverly plays out a scenario involving Warren, dying of cancer, a caustic Paul and a forever enfeebled Joe Castle.

The realism is strikingly apparent, regardless of Grisham's introduction of a fictional protagonist. In fact, the author cleverly let former Cub infielder Don Kessinger proof read and correct "Calico Joe" for realism. Kessinger's interjections make this story so absorbing, captivating and realistic that anyone reading this cannot but be spellbound by "Calico Joe." Memories flash of Carl Mays, Ray Chapman and Tony C. Mays was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1929. Despite impressive career statistics, he is primarily remembered for throwing a beanball on August 16, 1920, that struck and killed Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, making Chapman the only Major League player to die as a direct result of an injury sustained on the field. Similarly, Tony Conigliaro nicknamed "Tony C" played for the Boston Red Sox during their "Impossible Dream" season of 1967. He was hit in the face by a pitch from Jack Fisher, causing a severe eye injury and derailing his career. Though he would make a dramatic comeback from the injury, his career was not the same afterwards. Whether you like baseball or not, "Calico Joe" has something for any reader, guaranteeing a satisfying read!
ajouté par BERNIE2260 | modifierAmazon, Bernie Weisz (Sep 30, 2012)
 
Calico Joe is a typical virtuoso display of Grisham’s natural story-telling skills. Slowly emerging through flashbacks within flashbacks and fragmented conversations is the history of Paul’s unhappy childhood at his father’s hands.

Warren’s treatment of his family goes deep and Paul’s pain will not ease but barriers are broken down.

The result is a superbly written book which, though fewer than 200 pages long, deserves a place on any family bookshelf.
 
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