Friday Fiction: Strike Out

I worked in baseball for a while. My husband works in baseball now. We talk a lot of baseball in our house. My friend, Julie, was the one who told me to write a book about baseball, both of us having worked in the sport. And while the novel is set in professional baseball, the themes of the story revolve around loss, allowing yourself to love again, and finding the right person to love. Baseball Girl was my second novel, and the protagonist, Francesca Milli, becomes entangled in a love triangle at work with a ballplayer ...