Story #10: "The Knuckleball Artist" (Chapter 1)

A disgraced major league pitcher’s last hope lies with a kid who might be as lost as he is. A bittersweet novella.

CHAPTER 1

A BEE PULLING OUT HER LANDING GEAR

Everyone called Reginald “The Yipper” Perry’s Volkswagen Beetle “The Sleepmobile,” but Reg called it by its given name, the “Última Última Edición.” It was the world’s last Beetle, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico, on July 31st of 2003. The Última Última was burped out of the car wash and onto the…