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Farm Team
25th October 2006
This book reminded me of the movie Field of Dreams, minus the ghost ball players. A “feel-good” type story, with a few rough edges, which is typical for Weaver. He’s written two other books about the same main character, Billy Baggs, which I will probably read as well.
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