title: Season's End: A Novel
author:  Tom Grimes 
description: An entertaining tale of minor league baseball, Zen philosophy, death, fame, and statistics. Mike Williams is a minor league player looking to make it big by attaining the ultimate measure of success: a remarkable batting average. George O'Kane is his Buddha: a fellow minor leaguer who plays like an all-star, yet is unconcerned with the scrambling for success or the constant incremental measures of his performance. He develops a method of hitting that inverts the standard injunctions of batting coaches: he takes his eye off the ball and knocks them out of the park. O'Kane teaches his philosophy of baseball to Williams before being called up to the big leagues. Tom Grimes's novel is the story of Williams's own rise into the majors and his ascent in understanding the real lessons of baseball.
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  Tom and His Dog and the Camping Trip
  
  
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  Tom and His Dog and the Camping Trip
  
  
    
  
  
  Tom had wished the day away and could hardly
  
  
  wait for the final bell of the afternoon to ring which would signal
  
  
  the end of his last lesson of the day.
  
  
    
  
  
  He ran all the way home from school and
  
  
  didn’t even stop at his usual resting place half way up the hill
  
  
  which led to his house.
  
  
    
  
  
  This particular day, the last Friday in June,
  
  
  was the eighth birthday of Tom’s best friend Charlie. His next door
  
  
  neighbour, Alex – which was short for Alexandra, was coming home
  
  
  from university and she had offered to take