American Yankee - Last Walk to the Mound

American Yankee - Last Walk to the Mound 

Genre: Political Romance. 

 

Washed up personally and professionally, high-profile NY Yankee right-hander Brooks Crawford makes one last stand for credibility and legacy - to get back his prized 100 MPH fastball under the mentoring of Nicaraguan pitching great, Osniel Echevarria. As the country's first democratic election looms, so does the lingering, factional fighting between Sandinista forces and American-backed Contra guerrillas.

 

“Look, I just came down here to get my pitch back, I’m no “Che Guevara!”

 

As a budding relationship grows between Brooks and NGO Faith St. Thomas, Crawford's growing sports notoriety provides a shining light onto the violent and pernicious forces who’d like to see a corrupted electoral outcome. Crawford's proximity to Faith and her political work wields unanticipated consequences; a heroic popularity in spite of himself. Crawford's pitch begins to return but the campaign to demoralize election officials intensifies.

 

While Nicaragua teeters on the precipice of yet another all-out civil war, Crawford’s coaches and teammates are targeted and imprisoned. Although the race for the pennant is on, the city of Managua is overtaken by CIA-backed, enemy shock troops. Crawford summons a squad of eleven retired Major League American baseball players, dangerously confronts corrupted forces, leads his team to the pennant while mounting a barnstorming tour with his American make-shift squad with an American brand of ambassadorship and baseball all of his own. 

 

“With a ball in his hand, and the last walk to the mound, a life once over, is now found again”.

 

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