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Volume One, Eau Claire, June 11, 2009
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Royal Cutter had finally cracked The Show. After a dozen years of riding buses in the minor leagues, Royal found himself as the starting right fielder of the Milwaukee Brewers, in the very state where he had been a high school baseball legend years before.

Yet just two hours before the first pitch to open the baseball season, Royal is called into the manager's office. Traded...to Kansas City. The same city where Royal's father had starred in the 1970's and 1980's before his addiction to drugs tore apart his life. With his father serving a life sentence for a murder while on a drug-crazed binge, now Royal returns to the city where his family's baseball legacy started and tries to dodge the same temptations.

The Last Out takes the reader on a thrilling yet realistic journey through an entire baseball season, hitting more than twenty different cities as Royal tries to prove he can stick in The Show on the field while battling the party lifestyle after hours. Chris Earl's years as a sports journalist serve as the palette for another fictional work that captures the pressure and atmosphere of today's big-time sporting environment.

The Last Out is inspired by the author's own memories of growing up in Kansas City -- when it was still a baseball town and those games were THE social events on summer nights -- but also taken from actual events, such as the drug problems that plagued Major League Baseball in the early 1980's.

The Last Out is Chris Earl's third novel. 392 pages. $14.95. Click here for the unofficial soundtrack.

The Last Out

Royal Cutter has spent the past eleven years riding the minor-league baseball circuit. After finally cracking The Show, Royal finds himself traded to Kansas City, where his infamous father had become a budding star before drugs and wrong turns landed him in jail. Now Royal has to avoid the same troubles in the city he grew up in.

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The Interim

After switching careers, Robb Markstran finally settled into working with a men's college basketball program at Wisconsin State. Yet, five games into the season, a plane crash kills the coaching staff and some players. The administration makes Robb the head coach of, what he eventually discovers, the most corrupt and investigated basketball program in America.

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Gotcha Down

His debut novel, a hard-hitting look at how two people, one on the outside and one very much on the inside, profit from the wins and losses of a Big Ten football team. All with a young and naive placekicker from a tiny town in Wisconsin just trying to prove that he belongs. Gotcha Down earned reviewer praise upon its release in 2004 and was published by Jones Books of Madison.

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