Still Doing Time

<p><strong>In the summer of 1976 former minor-league baseball player Jimmy Bailey leaves prison after serving four years for a crime he didn't commit. </strong>He's expecting to start his life over and possibly even get back to playing baseball again. His sister Debbie who's what some people in the early 1970s would call a women's libber is highly accomplished and well connected in government and social justice circles in Massachusetts. She's an expert in <strong>urban planning</strong>. On Jimmy's last day in prison she picks him up when one of the guards tried to harass her. She puts him in his place and embarrasses him in front of a few other guards. Little do either Jimmy or Debbie realize that this incident will change their lives. </p><p><br></p><p>While he was in prison Jimmy clung to a letter he'd received from the man who owned the <strong>Boston Red Sox</strong> promising him a job at <strong>Fenway Park</strong> when he was finally finished with his sentence. Jimmy also worked with his cellmate a Black man who couldn't read to help him earn his high school diploma. Jimmy observed first-hand the <strong>social justice issues facing Black people following desegregation efforts in Boston </strong>in the early 1970s. </p><p><br></p><p>Both Jimmy and Debbie discover they're being stalked and followed by mysterious people around Cambridge and their home town of <strong>North Weymouth Massachusetts. </strong>Jimmy's former cellmate is badly beaten by inmates after Jimmy leave the prison; the prison warden is killed leading to a major investigation by state and federal authorities. </p><p><br></p><p>Cameo appearances by <strong>then-Governor Michael Dukakis as well as Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee</strong> appear in this book. Massachusetts landmarks such as <strong>Castle Island Fenway Park the State House in Boston Wessagusset Beach and scenes in North Weymouth and Quincy (on Boston's South Shore)</strong> also play roles in this novel. </p><p><br></p><p>Conspiracies intrigue <strong>baseball </strong>and even some <strong>romance </strong>come together as the main characters delve into the mysteries behind this book. </p>