The Sooner Southpaw

A small-town boy with big dreams, B.J. Doyle aspired to play pro baseball. His inspiration? Oklahoma’s Mickey Mantle who was a star with the New York Yankees. After his Uncle Ben took him to see Mantle’s motel in Joplin, Missouri, where Mantle had many of his trophies he had won on display. The young 10-year-old Doyle was amazed that a small-town boy from Oklahoma could do all of that. The Sooner Southpaw, a work of fiction, rings with the truths of someone who lived the dream. A book of romance, relationships, and baseball.