The Homerun Code by Coyote Mike

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“Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.”  –Yogi Berra

Let’s play ball!

I'm in need of 10K to manufacture and market my new novel, The Homerun Code by Coyote Mike. It's target-audience is high school baseball and softball players and coaches. And Little Leaguers—over 5 million of them are actively playing ball!

My novel also targets teenagers that are gender-fluid and in search of his or her unique gender identity.

Here is a sample of my writing and message, from the chapter, Church Of Baseball.

“Baseball is played outside in nature, in a Park. Not on a court, course, stadium, or rink, but on a natural dirt and grass field.” Coach began the first inning of his Talk, “Baseball is played in the spring and summer, always in nice weather. If it rains, us baseballers just go home.
“Human time (hours, minutes, and days) does not exist in a baseball park. Baseball time comes in strikes, outs, and innings. The game plays for nine innings, seven in high school ball, no matter how much time it takes. Theoretically, a baseball game could last for all eternity.”
His players, all sitting on the grass with curious minds, listened with fascination.
“In baseball, the objective is to score runs, not points or goals. In baseball, a player just wants to ‘go home’.
“There are no penalties, flags, or whistles to stop the game. In baseball a player just makes an error.” 
“Oops!’” Other Matt shouted with delight.
More laughter, especially from Travis and Kurt.
“There is no player contact in baseball. No violence. Baseball is a gentlemen’s game, a game of skill, not strength or aggressive behavior. So even wimpy players like DJ and, what’s that other wimpy player’s name?, oh yeah, Other Matt, no… Kurt?”
“The umpire is Lord Master of the baseball park. It is his way or the ejection highway. When you step onto his playing field, you become his follower because you are now in his Church of Baseball. 
“The game only begins when the umpire says, ‘Play ball!’ Not when a clock or the media says it’s the correct starting time.
Coach loved his metaphor of his ‘Church of Baseball’. It wasn't an attempt to challenge or subvert any formal religion. It was for his players to understand their lives from a different point of view, “Like in Church we do on the baseball field. Like in baseball so we do on the field of our lives.”

* * *

Bill stood up, the players were ready. They all had their game-faces on.
“As Coach always says, there is a deeper meaning to everything in baseball. And as in baseball, so it is in life.”
Bill began talking numbers, “The baseball has 108 stitches, and each stitch is hand-adjusted to perfection. No machine can make a baseball.
108 is the product of 12 times 9. Easy. Now think: nine players on each team, nine innings in a baseball game, each inning is three outs long, so in a full inning that’s six outs. Six times nine innings is 54 outs in a game, which is exactly half of 108.
Bill was right on track so he just kept talking, “108 is the product of 12 times 9. Easy. Now think: nine players on each team, nine innings in a baseball game.
"Each team gets three outs, so in a full inning that’s six outs. Six times nine innings is 54 outs in a game, which is exactly half of 108. Playing two games, 108 innings, gives both teams a chance to be the winner.
“The structure of the game is a triangle, a Trinity, with three connecting parts: three strikes, three outs, and nine innings which is three times three. A game has three distinctive parts, the beginning, middle, and end, each three innings long. To master the game of baseball, as all of you know, a player must first master the three pillars.”
The boys on the grass automatically recited the pillars in their heads.
Coach did too. He was impressed and surprised with Bill’s impromptu presentation about numbers. Coach was learning too! He thought, “Remember who is the student and who is the teacher.”
The numbers made sense to him. Their mathematical synchronicity was amazing, magical really. Coach always thought he was a Master at baseball but with Bill’s teaching, he understood the ‘numbers of baseball’ in a whole new way.
“What about hats?” Bill asked.
“Yes! Football players have to wear a helmet,” Travis realized.
“So do hockey players,” Wyatt added.
“And bicycle racers do to!” Rodney joined in.
”But baseballers only need a ‘cap’.”
“Of course,” Bill pointed out, “You can’t ‘doff’ a helmet.”

* * *

Coach sat down in the shade on the cool grass, now at an equal level with all of his players. “Boys, there’s a very sad part about playing baseball: not playing. Not playing baseball ever again.”
The boys were stumped. They had a game later that week.
Coach clarified, “When you finish playing High School Ball here, you will never play baseball again. Never. Not fun baseball, not Church of Baseball baseball.”
The players started to catch-on to Coach’s message and became silent and concerned in thought.
“If you play College Ball you’ll quickly learn that it’s all about turning baseballers into money-making machines. And no Church is involved. Softball Leagues are certainly fun but the games aren’t a real competition, and the quality of play is pretty low.
“Right now you are real baseballers, as authentic as it gets—nothing better.”
The boys saw hope through their feelings of confusion.
“Play this season as though it was your last… because it is.
“Experience it all, the good and the bad, the winning and the losing. It’s all baseball. And you will remember these games for the rest of your life.”
Coach was the best.

I'm happy to send you an e-copy of the complete manuscript.

As in baseball, so too in life,

Coyote Mike


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