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LogDog75

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29. Calico Joe by Jophn Grisham

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 05:15 PM

Aug 31

Paul Traceu is the son of an ex-Mets pitcher Warren Tracey from the 1970s. Paul receives news his father is dying of pancreatic and only has a few months left to live. Paul's parents divorces when he was 12 because Warren was abusive to his wife and kids. Since then, Paul, his mother, and his sister have had little contact with Warren.

Calico Joe was a young man brought up from the Cubs minor league team and in his first game hit three home runs and safely bunted on base scoring a run. He had a meteoric rise quickly become the hardest man in baseball to strike out. That is, until he met Warren Tracey. After homering off Warren, at Joe's next at bat Warren intentionally beaned Joe causing Joe's career to to come to an end. Warren denies he intentionally beaned Joe but Paul and just about everyone else who follows baseball knows differently.
Joe now walks with a limp and he takes care of his home town's high school baseball field.

Pail Tracey goes to Warren's home in Florida in the hopes he can get his father meet Joe after 30 years to apologize and admit to Joe that he beaned him intentionally.

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