{"product_id":"the-dead-pull-hitter","title":"The Dead Pull Hitter","description":"I’m Katherine Henry. My friends call me Kate. I am a baseball writer by trade. I’m forty, older than most of the Titans, including the manager. I’m tallish, prettyish, and a lot more interesting than most of the people I write about.\n\nI’m good at my job, to the active disappointment of some of my male colleagues, who have been waiting for me to fall on my face since the day I walked into my first spring training.\n\nI am also the only woman on the team plane who doesn’t serve drinks.\n\nKate has her problems with the arrogance, ignorance, easy money and bigotry of the sports world. She also has impossible deadlines and puts in weeks of overtime. But it’s all in a baseball-season’s work.\n\nUntil the day the designated hitter doesn’t show for the game: someone seems to have used his skull for batting practice.\n\nThe homicide squad is called in, and Kate’s search for a scoop puts her at odds, and in pleasantly close contact, with the law. As real life impinges on the world of baseball, Kate learns how naïve – and vulnerable – she really is.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0771034210\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0771034210.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Gordon, Alison\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977010188349,"sku":"BVV.0771034210.A","price":74.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0771034210-0.jpg?v=1770154120","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-dead-pull-hitter","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}