Matt Granite: An Introduction

By Greg M Sheehan

This is the introduction to the Matt Granite Baseball Series. This new and irreverent spin on the national pastime, isn't to be taken seriously. No one said baseball was fair.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Greg M Sheehan
• Release date: Sep 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311413512

Greg M Sheehan

I have been around baseball my entire life. I started playing organized baseball at six years old, even though I was supposed to be eight to join the team. I hit over .400 twice at the high school level and led the 128 high school, CCS California section in batting average and runs batted in. Alas, I wasn't drafted, because I played outfield. The pros had no use for a 5'10 175 pound outfielder. That's the breaks of the game. However, if a sharp scout would have moved me to second base or catcher well...The Matt Granite Preview book, is just that. An intro to a fun series, about Matt Granite, an undrafted high school catcher who goes to a big league game. Disaster strikes the San Francisco Gladiators as they are without a catcher just minutes before the start of a game against their arch enemies, the Los Angeles Tangelos. Everything changes for good, when Matt Granite is grabbed from the upper deck.Baseball will never be the same as Matt and his two friends romp their way through the baseball world. It's non stop laughs, as I kick the some excitement in the stodgy baseball world. There will be mayhem, there will be strip clubs, there will be Matt Granite the only sane person of the whole bunch!

Book preview

Matt Granite

An Introduction

By

Greg M. Sheehan

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2015 by Greg M. Sheehan

All Rights Reserved.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Table of Contents

The Characters

Matt Granite Baseball Series Preview

Books In The Matt Granite Series

Matt Granite Baseball Series Preview

New Year’s Eve

Amador Valley High School Athletic Department

The Amador Valley Dons High School head baseball coach Bill Granger looked around his cramped office. Pictures of his previous baseball teams hung from the wall. The high school was located in Pleasanton, CA, a quaint town named after Major General Alfred Pleasonton, a cavalry officer who’d fought with distinction during the Battle of Gettysburg. No one could remember why the two names were spelled slightly differently...

Mr. Granger doubled as a U.S. History teacher for the high school. But the baseball team was his true love. The phone rang, and he got on the line with the head baseball coach of Diablo Valley Junior College. Hey, Willie, what’s shaking?

Willie said, You recover yet from the loss to Concord High in the NCS finals?

Come on, that was last year. Or it will be, shortly after tonight. So what’s up?

Any idea on his plans yet?

Who?

Willie said, Willie McCovey…Who do you think? Matt Granite, your soon-to-be-senior star catcher. The best high school catcher in Northern California, or maybe the state.

Coach Granger looked at next year’s baseball schedule for Amador Valley, which was hanging on the wall. I have no idea what’s going to happen to Matt Granite after he graduates.

Bill, is he going to a Division 1 college? Come on, give me something. Do I have any chance?

Couldn’t really say.

Don’t hold out on me, Granger. He hit over .375 last year as a junior. I can’t be the only coach calling you.

What if I told you that was indeed the case? No major league scout will look at a high school catcher, and that’s just for starters. Sure, Matt hit well over .350 as a junior for me, but top-flight division colleges are looking for players who are over six feet tall, with bulging biceps.

What is he, five-ten?

Yep.

Willie seemed surprised. You’re telling me a high school catcher who hit .375 and who is two inches shy of six feet is falling under the radar.

That’s pretty much it.

"So what is Matt Granite doing