Baseball Calling

By Jennese Alicia Torres

Baseball aficionado father can not let go of his dream of making it to the major leagues. He tirelessly trains his son, since the day his son was born, to follow his dream to become a baseball player. And why wouldn't he? Everyone knows how close he was to making it to the Major Leagues! 

 

Papi and Papito take you to both Yankee Stadium and Citifield, time travel from the '80s to the present, dodge fastballs and curveballs, all in pursuit of their baseball calling.

 

A fun, humorous father and son New York City baseball adventure.

 

You will laugh at Papi's reminiscing of the '80s. You will be in awe at what Papito uncovers. You will wonder what you would do if you were Papi or Papito. Most of all you will root for this father and son team as they follow their baseball calling!

• Language: English
• Publisher: La Diva Latina
• Release date: Oct 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393642879

Jennese Alicia Torres

Her father owned his own bread route aka “el panadero”, and her grandma owned her own botanica. She continues the entrepreneurial spirit with her own law office. She began her virtual law office with the lessons she learned from designing and managing LaDivaLatina.com, one of the first Latino websites on the internet.  Jennese was an influencer before they even had a name for it because her website was so popular that it was stolen from the internet by cyber-squatting.  As a lawyer, she waded through the murky waters of cyberlaw and got her website back.  LaDivaLatina.com also became her voice to the world and she blogged and was vocal about anything on her mind.  Her blogging grew into writing and she launched her first book, I am My Grandmother's Daughter. LaDiva became her alter-ego. Many call her simply LaDiva.  However you know her, as a Designer, Influencer, Vocalist, or Author,  (she swapped the A of Attorney for Author), you begin to wonder...  Which came first LaDiva or Jennese? No one really knows for sure! Follow her on social media @njdivaesq and her websites: jennesetorres.com, newjerseydiva.com, and of course LaDivaLatina.com.  

Book preview

Father and Son Team

T he Yankees won the World Series in 1977. Right, Papi? Papito prompts his Papi although he has heard the story dozens of times. His father readily fills in the blanks at his son’s prompts. Papito has heard his father tell his baseball story so many times that now he is the one that can tell the story, but he would rather have his father tell it.

"Yes, mi hijo.[1] And the following year in 1978 the Yankees won again!" His father answers enthusiastically as ever. Although he has recited the story to his son mil veces.[2]

Papi and Papito[3] never tired of baseball. To this father-and-son team, baseball is an analogy of life. Béisbol es ¡pura vida![4]

Papi loves to teach Papito life lessons using baseball as an analogy. He always says baseball axioms, like this:

It ain't over till it's over. That is baseball-speak for ‘Never give up’ because in baseball the game is not played until the clock runs out. In other sports, there is a clock running. Like in basketball, each quarter is 12 minutes. In football, each quarter is 15 minutes. But in baseball, the game keeps going until the last out. There are 9 innings. There is the top of the inning and the bottom of the inning. It’s not: Only 3 minutes left in the quarter. In baseball, no hay reloj.[5] In baseball, it ain’t over till it’s over!

Step up to the plate! That is baseball-speak for ‘This is your chance so give it your all!’ Plus in baseball you have three chances to get it right. Three strikes before you are out. When you step up to the plate your goal is to hit the ball, to score a home-run. You don’t step up to the plate to strike out. When you are stepping up to the plate, you give it your all because your goal is always to hit un