The Pitcher -- William Elliott Hazelgrove, Paperback Ethnic Issues Winner of the GLCA New

Winner of the GLCA New Writers Award Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Awards

He cries when he's sad

Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials

recipes that were once closely guarded family secrets were shared and passed between different groups in an effort to ensure that they were not lost forever

But as she accepts the award for top-seller at her realty firm

The Pitcher -- William Elliott Hazelgrove, Paperback Ethnic Issues Winner of the GLCA New"The Pitcher," is a classic story of baseball, the price of dreams, and the lessons of life. A mythic baseball story about a broken down World Series Pitcher is mourning over the death of his wife and an underprivileged Mexican American boy who lives across the street and wants to learn to pitch. This is a mainstream contemporary novel about dreams lost and found. In the great tradition of books like, "The Natural." This is a novel with the mythic