Fielder's Choice Author:Rick Norman A novel about growing up baseball in the 1930s and the war experience in the Pacific War. It is told as a memoir of small-town Arkansas boy who makes it to the major leagues as a pitcher in 1941 but chokes on a winning run that loses the pennant. He joins the Air Force and ends up in a Japanese POW camp where he is saved by a Japanese officer wh... more »o recognizes him as a former major leaguer. This complicates his life later when he returns to the US when there are charges of treason, which his memoir is meant to refute and explain.« less