Rocky is a baseball player who dreams of playing for the Miesville Mudhens. When he makes the team, he meets a colorful cast of characters who teach him not only about baseball, but the lessons of life.

Includes tales from the Ute, Piute, Omaha, Blackfoot, Hopi and Teton tribes.

Ever since the ill-fated trade of Rocky Colavito to Detroit in 1960, Indians fans have watched their team stumble through an extraordinary array of misdeeds, misfortunes, and outright tragedies. This series of funny, fond, and irreverent vignettes captures the frustration, anger--and undying optimism--of baseball's worst team. Photos.

Jack is an out-of-work investment banker and part-time lounge pianist, who's on the run from the SEC and the Russian mob. Nevada is an aging porn star turned industry icon with a passion for animal husbandry and younger men. Dmitriy is an ex-cosmonaut turned international hit man with a weakness for American pop culture and very large women. Shavkat is a terrorist turned taxi-driver with a penchant for violent swordplay and odd headgear. Pyotr is an ex-KGB colonel turned bank security officer with plans to launch an apocalyptic world revolution. Mix in some local Shriners, veteran bikers, and minor league baseball fans, and you've got the makings of a very long, hot summer day in Durham, North Carolina.

Collects a year's worth of cookie recipes with a range of chewy, crispy, brownie-style, no-bake, vegan, and gluten-free options and shares culinary anecdotes, baking trivia, and tribute options for historical and pop-culture anniversaries --