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Gregg SAPP is the author of the “Holidazed” series of satires, each of which is set around a different holiday. To date, there are nine books in the series, from “The Christmas Donut Revolution” to the latest, “Baseball, Birthday, and Ten-Cent Beer.” Previous books include his dollar store epic, "Dollarapalooza” and “Fresh News Straight from Heaven,” which is based on the folklore of Johnny Appleseed (Evolved 2018). He also writes essays, humor, poetry and short fiction that have appeared in several literary journals far and wide. A native Ohioan, Gregg now writes and lives in Tumwater, WA.
Reviewed by Lex Allen for Readers' Favorite
In Baseball, Birthday, and Ten-Cent Beer by Gregg Sapp, Solomon Zuch loves baseball, and his favorite team is the Cleveland Indians. The Indians' management runs a lottery for home games to pick birthday boys to serve as honorary ballboys. Plans were made for the entire family to attend the next home game, and en route to the game, Solomon's dad sprang the surprise that his name had been drawn and he would be this game's honorary ballboy. Solomon takes his "job" seriously, and when tempers flare against arch-rivals and the Texas Rangers, coupled with "ten-cent beer night," threaten to derail the game, he proves to be up to the challenge, going above and beyond the team's steady ballboys in handling unusual situations and earning the praise of the players, the officials, the fans, and his family.
Author Gregg Sapp displays an obvious, in-depth knowledge of the game of baseball, with a sense of humor about alcoholic missteps, making Baseball, Birthday, and Ten-Cent Beer a rock-and-rolling story that will keep readers turning the pages, eager for the next crazy/hilarious incident. Sapp superbly brings to life and limb the hilarity of Murphy's Law with the adage, "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong," and, trust me, everything goes wrong. Although the primary plotline revolves around Solomon's handling of a variety of situations, both with the game itself and the consequences of ten-cent beer, other characters include Solomon's family, ball players, officials, and tourists watching their first baseball game, rounding out the gamut of baseball fans as well as lovers of fun-to-read stories.
