A Season on the Drink is a story of challenge, hope, and coming together as a team to do something extraordinary that can transformeven for a moment Its a story of redemption, dignity, and purpose.
Dave Winfield, National Baseball Hall of Fame
Harris book is a tribute to the community around local sports. He writes about an ordinary place filled with extraordinary people full of dignity and lives full of meaning. It's a sobering story of sports, friendship, and stands as a restorative first-rate read.
Jack Hannahan, former Major League Baseball player
The best baseball stories are deeply rooted in a love for the game while also casting an unflinching eye at the world beyond the foul poles. Count A Season on the Drink among those stories. Pat Harris masterfully blends wry humor with an honest, moving portrayal of addiction to create a memorable cast of characters who keep readers rooting for them even after the last pitch is thrown.
Jack Heffron, author of The Local Boys
Harriss debut is a remarkable novel whose subject is, on its surface, a softball team made up of chronic alcoholics. Immersion in its storytelling, however, reveals greater depths, focusing on a handful of characters from the team and the Saint Anthony Residence.
Julia Kastner, Maximum Shelf, Shelf Awareness
A Season on the Drink is a powerful and compassionate portrait of the men living at the St. Anthony Residencefittingly named for the patron saint of lost things. While Harris offers an honest account of all they have loststability, relationships, health, and purposehe also reveals what remains: moments of connection, resilience, and the hope of being seen. At its heart, this is a story about our need to belong, even in the most overlooked and forgotten places.
Pat Plonski, Executive Director, Books for Africa
Finding your place in the world isnt always a fastball down the middle. A Season on the Drink captures the hopes and struggles we all faceon the field and off. Full of heart, humor, and hard truths, this one connects. I call em like I see em: its a hit.
Tim Tschida, legendary Major League Baseball umpire
The joy of this wonderful book is the hunt. We search for ourselves in each of the characters. Adapt, examine, identify, discard. Like a great painting, A Season on the Drink is immersive in the best sense.
Mike Veeck, Minor League Baseball team owner
First pitch and youre in. A Season on the Drink is an original cocktail of true characters, orderly chaos, broken dreams, and a shaky team of outcasts desperate for redemption. Its free-swinging narrative neatly weaves through a lineup of complicated lives that intersect through personal pain and shared inspiration. Its a winner!
Dave Whitaker, author of Cabrini-Green in Words & Pictures
