Chasing Dreams

Young Brown, the hero of CHASING DREAMS, has problems. He just doesn't fit in. Girls aren't interested in him. At school, he sleeps through lectures on Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. His father, Shane, never sees eye to eye with him on anything, and his loving little brother, Clark, is confined to a wheelchair. Just when it seems time for Brown to pack it all in and become another teenage suicide statistic, however, fate steps in in the form of his school's baseball coach, Fife. This wise, lonely old codger sees a natural batting talent--largely the result of Brown's experiences chopping wood on the family farm--in the troubled boy, and soon, thanks to...