If I Never Get Back: A Novel 6 editions
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and tastes changing as he faces life-threatening 19th-century challenges on and off the baseball diamond. Through his attachments to the ballplayers and the lovely Caitlin O'Neill, he might just regain the sense of family he desperately needs. Darryl Brock masterfully evokes post-Civil War America’s smoky, turbulent cities, the new transcontinental railroad that takes passengers over prairies and mountains to California, the dance halls and parlor houses, the financial booms and busts, and historical luminaries like Mark Twain and Jesse James. Equally appealing to sports fans and anyone who likes a good read, If I Never Get Back well deserves the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s judgment that it “hits a home run.”
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6 editions First published in 1990
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History Created December 10, 2009 · 8 revisions
| March 20, 2013 | Edited by Mark Snodgrass | Edited without comment. |
| October 24, 2012 | Edited by ImportBot | Added subject 'In library' |
| February 11, 2012 | Edited by Dylan Cuffy | merge authors |
| November 4, 2011 | Edited by EdwardBot | remove 'in fiction' subjects |
| December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |





