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Consulting with a Professional Baseball Player

Darin Gibby

Darin Gibby

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Gil

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Synopsis

Some gifts come with a price. Twenty years before, high school coach Gil Gilbert gave up his dream to play professional baseball so he could marry his pregnant girlfriend, Keri. When he miraculously discovers that he can pitch with deadly accuracy and speed, he must choose between his successful career and comfortable family life or his chance to play with the Colorado Rockies during a player’s strike. Gil stuns the pitching staff with 100 mph fastballs and is offered a contract. After joining the Rockies, the world soon learns that Gil is a supernatural phenomenon and the Rockies keep winning. But Gil soon faces stiff opposition, including a frivolous lawsuit, a father who feels his son’s calling to pitch is to save souls, and threats from the striking players. As the season progresses, Gil discovers that his unexpected gift is the result of a rare disease, and continuing to pitch may hasten his own death. While Keri supports his decision to keep playing, she is fearful about her husband’s bizarre health condition. Gil must decide what price he is willing to pay to live his dream.

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Author Biography

Darin Gibby is a patent attorney who is consistently ranked as one of the top intellectual property lawyers in the country. He is also a #1 Amazon Best Seller and the author of four books, including Gil, winner of the 2017 Colorado Author’s League award for Mainstream Fiction, and Chasing Hindy, a thriller about a patent attorney who thinks she has landed her dream job when she joins a startup that purports to have invented a car that can run on water. He has been featured in a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Huffington Post.

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Consulting with a Professional Baseball Player

After I'd finished the first draft of Gil, I figured it would be a good idea to have a professional baseball player read the manuscript to see if it was true to life. I was fortunate to come across Larry Brooks who pitched several years in the minor leagues. After he read the book, he set me straight on what really happens behind the scenes in professional baseball. Also, he helped me understand how to throw each of the pitches and how I should describe them. When we were finished with our discussion, I was convinced that I needed to rewrite the draft--which I did. I came up with the idea of having the MLB go on strike and need replacement players. That made it much easier to sell Gil as a major league player. When I sent Larry the revised draft, he loved it and offered to write a blurb for the cover. It's the best blurb I've received for any of my books.

Book Excerpt

Gil

“Baseball novels are a staple of literature. Something about

the game captures our imagination, maybe because we view the

players as better versions of ourselves, chasing a dream we once

harbored. Like the game itself, we lose ourselves in the rhythms

and bounces of it. Every pitch is an opportunity, every swing a

herculean effort, every throw from the outfield the pursuit of a

low probability shot at changing everything.

In Darin Gibby’s new novel Gil, this sense of the dream is

given breath through vivid detail and the vicarious immediacy

of strapping on the cleats and staring down a batter. Love,

dreams, bitter disappointment, heroic effort—it’s all here and

it will break your heart as it takes you back to a time when you

believed anything is possible. You don’t have to love baseball to

love Gil, but if you do, you’ll be back on the field. Being in the

game is everything, and Gil takes us there with a full count and

a shot at glory.”

—Larry Brooks, former minor league player

Gil

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