Bottom of the Ninth

By Duke Tate

It's Christmas time in New York City and the bottom of the ninth in Maximilian Clark II's life.

 

His father, Max senior, just passed from cancer. Meanwhile, Max lost his job selling pizza during Knicks' games at Madison Square Garden and his fake watch collection he usually sells on the corner of Times Square was stolen from his beat up Chevy van later that same day.

 

Unable to make rent, his wife left him with their two kids after they were served an eviction notice to be out of their Harlem apartment in just two weeks.

 

Descended from a line of die-hard Yankees' fans, Max realizes there is more to life than just baseball and needs money soon, but how? After attending a series of Get Rich Seminars and coming up empty, he wonders if he will ever get the score he needs to get out of his slump.

 

Can he save his life before the bottom of the ninth? 

 

Find out in this short read by Duke Tate.

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pearl Press LLC
• Release date: Nov 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781951465414

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Bottom of the Ninth

Bottom of the Ninth

A Short Read

Duke Tate

Pearl Press

Bottom of the Ninth

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Bottom of the Ninth

It was a crisp October day in 1952 on the lower east side of Manhattan when Maximilian Clark took a dirt-stained nickel out of his jean pocket with his scrawny hand and laid it down on the counter of Buck’s neighborhood corner store for one wax pack of Topps Baseball cards.

The pack was frog green at the top and Christmas red at the bottom, and had the words GIANT SIZE written in the lower left-hand corner. Leaving the store, ten-year-old Max could barely wait to tear into the cards.

Standing out on the Manhattan sidewalk, he ripped the pack open and tossed the hard, super-sweet gum in his mouth and began to chew. Flipping through the