The Broken Bat
Abandoned by his father and tormented by a mother consumed by bitterness, young Raphael learns early that the world is a place of pain and struggle. His only escape is....
Abandoned by his father and tormented by a mother consumed by bitterness, young Raphael learns early that the world is a place of pain and struggle. His only escape is the baseball field, where a broken bat becomes a symbol of his impossible dream: to be loved, to be wanted, to be someone his mother can finally be proud of. But as his talent grows, so does the shadow of a past he knows nothing about, a past that holds the key to his father's disappearance and the truth behind his mother's cruelty. Can a boy with nothing but a dream and a broken bat truly mend a shattered family, or is he destined to repeat a cycle of heartbreak?