Hark! New Era Publishing

335 pages, $5.99

Review by David S. Atkinson

Len Joy had his work cut out for him when I picked up American Past Time. The book centers on a 1950’s minor league baseball star who has to live with blowing his big shot. However, I’m not into baseball. Still, I could trust Len Joy’s writing chops since his work appears in places such as Annalemma, Hobart, 3AM Magazine, and The Foundling Review. Given that Joy is a competitive age-group triathlete, it also seemed he might have something interesting to say about the (to me) foreign world of athletics. I decided to give the book a shot. Continue reading →