Calico Joe Sports Memorabilia Review

John Grisham is best known for thrillers, usually legal, but he's also the author of many books outside those boundaries, including Painted House and a very powerful non-fiction book called Innocent Man, which explores the injustice of the death penalty and the corrupting world around it. He's reviving the old days of professional baseball with "Calico Joe," which gets more interesting since his timeframe in 1973 coincides with my childhood interest in a once-cool game before massive deals and…

I loved this novel, like all John Grisham stories, because the characters have such heart. I feel like now that I know Paul Tracy, I know what it's like to love baseball and want your parents to be your hero and your admiration to be always turned off. Thanks to Grisham's story, I feel like I can now watch baseball and know enough to enjoy it, so I read. Plunge so deeply into another world that it seems to me that I have actually visited this world. Calico Joe is the story of little boy Paul…

Calico Joe, written by John Grisham, is a novel about two major league baseball players, their families and fans. Much of this is told by Paul Tracy, the son of Warren Tracy, a journeyman pitcher who retired from the New York Mets in 1973 when Paul was eleven. The book jumps back and forth between 1973 and thirty years in the future. This is a wonderful story that immerses the reader in a professional baseball environment. Paul, like many boys, loved baseball and played in the minor leagues…