Waiting For Teddy Williams

“[A] novel about baseball, coming of age, and dreaming out loud”* from an award-winning author, a most unlikely young prospect is drafted by the Red Sox. Ethan “E.A.” Allen was born in the remote village of Kingdom Common, Vermont. Noted for its fervent, if unrequited, devotion to the Boston Red Sox, the village sports a replica of Fenway Park's Green Monster on top of the local baseball bat factory. Here, in a region that lags decades behind the rest of New England, E.A. lives with his honky-to