{"id":8038,"date":"2019-11-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/?p=8038"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:06:45","slug":"new-release-the-conman-by-mike-murphey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/27\/new-release-the-conman-by-mike-murphey\/","title":{"rendered":"New Release: The Conman by Mike Murphey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Title: The Conman
Author: Mike Murphey
Genre: Sports Fiction (Baseball)<\/strong>
Release Date: November 11, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conor Nash has lived his life with a single purpose\u2014to pitch in the Major Leagues. He\u2019s been released from professional baseball contracts ten times over a sixteen-year career, but he\u2019s overcome every obstacle to finally reach The Show when he\u2019s a decade too old. 

As he faces the specter of injury-forced retirement, he becomes a man neither he nor his wife recognizes. During his career, Conor avoided the trap of alcohol and drugs because his drug was baseball. And what can an addict do when he realizes he will never get that high again?

Conor climbs treacherous Camelback Mountain, drinks a bottle of Champagne, recalls people and events, and seeks an answer. Who is Conor Nash if he can\u2019t pitch?

The Conman is based on the Life of Keith Comstock. Keith pitched professionally for sixteen years, including Major League time with The Seattle Mariners, the San Diego Padres, the San Francisco Giants and the Minnesota Twins. Following his retirement in 1992, Keith has held minor league coaching and managing positions with several organizations.  For the past decade he has served as the rehabilitation instructor for the Texas Rangers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Excerpt The Conman:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHAPTER ONE<\/strong>
October 1992<\/strong>
Phoenix, Arizona<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Failure can be an acute condition, perhaps even chronic, but quitting\u2014quitting is fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conor Nash believed this to his marrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No stranger to failure, Conor had been released from professional baseball contracts ten times. He\u2019d been released by major league teams. He\u2019d been released by minor league affiliates. He\u2019d been released in five countries encompassing three continents. He wasn\u2019t sure how to count Puerto Rico. And, technically, that release occurred in an aircraft somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. He\u2019d had a contract when the plane took off. When it landed, they told him, \u201cGo home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Venezuela, well, they weren\u2019t satisfied with just releasing him. A pissed-off dictator banned him from the entire country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope remained, though, and ultimately, he\u2019d kept his vow. Conor Nash pitched in the major leagues. So why did this champagne bottle clutched in his left hand cast a pall that felt like death? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fat Brad Grady could have helped him sort through these confusing emotions. Brad loved debating the nuance of words, and he and Conor argued the semantics often enough. Where Conor saw a razor-sharp line distinguishing fail <\/em>and quit<\/em>, Brad found a middle ground he defined as surrender to reality<\/em> or honorable retreat<\/em>. Brad\u2019s intellect would help make sense of Conor\u2019s present struggle. Brad wasn\u2019t available, though, was he? Conor closed his eyes and took a deep breath, trying to slough off the guilty anger he still confronted when he thought of Brad.

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About Mike Murphey:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mike Murphey is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Following his retirement from the newspaper business, he and his wife Nancy entered in a seventeen-year partnership with the late Dave Henderson, all-star centerfielder for the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners. Their company produced the A\u2019s and Mariners adult baseball Fantasy Camps. They also have a partnership with the Roy Hobbs adult baseball organization in Fort Myers, Florida. Mike loves fiction, cats, baseball and sailing. He splits his time between Spokane, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona, where he enjoys life as a writer and old-man baseball player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connect with Mike Murphey: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website<\/a> | Instagram<\/a> | Facebook<\/a> | BookBub<\/a> | Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title: The ConmanAuthor: Mike MurpheyGenre: Sports Fiction (Baseball) Release Date: November 11, 2019 Conor Nash has lived his life with a single purpose\u2014to pitch in the Major Leagues. He\u2019s been released from professional baseball contracts ten times over a sixteen-year career, but he\u2019s overcome every obstacle to finally reach The Show when he\u2019s a decade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2,2424],"tags":[2486,2485,2482,2487],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/The-Conman-Tour.png?fit=400%2C152&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10628,"url":"https:\/\/havecoffeeneedbooks.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/book-review-internship-with-the-devil-by-jaqueline-snow\/","url_meta":{"origin":8038,"position":0},"title":"Book Review: Internship with the Devil by Jaqueline Snow","date":"2020-09-03","format":false,"excerpt":"Internship with the Devil by Jaqueline Snow Title: Internship with the Devil (Shut Up and Kiss Me #1)Author: Jaqueline SnoweGenre: Sports RomanceMy rating: 3 of 5 stars If you yearn for slow-burn romances, then Internship with the Devil is the book for you. 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