Nice Guy Go Home Author:Robert G. Weaver In a story ostensibly about baseball but actually about a young man affirming his values in a way of life, Robert G. Weaver has drawn together two opposing worlds and reflected them in a conflict that is familiar across our country. — "Our people are not of this world," Johnny King's father has said, but in spite of being raised an ... more »Amishman, Johnny wanted more than anything to play baseball.
Given the chance to pitch for a semiprofessional team in the South, Johnny finds himself up against problems avoided by the Amish way of life. Competition become more important than cooperation, and the will to win reaches a fierceness that infringes on the rules of the game.
Then because of his long Amish hair Johnny is mistaken for a civil-rights worker and is drawn into the troubles of the Negroes, the rights movement, and the whole town.« less