Harry Allen Wenzel

Batter-Up Harry Allen Wenzel

Batter Up is autobiographical and an inspirational story portraying the lives of young boys as friends, all centered around the theme of their love of baseball. The setting is a small town in Pennsylvania in the late 1950's. The story represents a journey through baseball memories, mostly as a child and some as an adult, baseball card collecting, stickball, sandlot and little league play, and creating heroes from those on the big league diamond. The story culminates with a sketch of the demise of the author's boy-hood baseball hero.