GARY W. MOORE
Thursday, April 10 at 6 p.m.

Chicago area businessman and musician Gary W. Moore tells the story of his father—a man on his way, back in the time of the Great Depression, to a possible baseball career—when World War II came along. The war altered life for countless people—beyond reckoning, really—but Gene Moore's course was altered in some of the most surprising ways. Gary Moore's book, Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and the Long Journey Home (Penguin), does have baseball in it—and much more. "Gene's journey from promise to despair and back again, set against a long war and an even longer post-war recovery, retains every bit of its vitality and relevance, a 20th-century epic that demonstrates how, sometimes, letting go of a dream is the only way to discover one's great fortune." - Publishers Weekly.

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