Story X: The Knuckleball Artist

An Americana tall tale of a washed-up Yankee, a misfit Little Leaguer, and the world's last Volkswagen Beetle.

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,” or Ú.Ú. when it was just the two of them.

She was the world’s last Beetle, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico, on June 3rd of 2003. The Última Última wa…