Terence O’Leary The inspiration for More Than a Game came to me on the slope of my front driveway. As I was pitching plastic golf balls to my son, I thought about the bond baseball weaves between fathers and sons. I wanted to tell a story that would convey that bond and the magical moments families find on baseball fields. Little did I know this story would consume the next three years of my life. Jane Bradley, a writer and teacher, read an early draft of More Than a Game and convinced me that I didn’t have a novel but the seeds of one. I spent years reworking More Than a Game. Chapters I spent weeks writing were deleted. Characters were sent to the unemployment file. I reached the point where I thought I was living inside the story. I could recite lines of dialogue in my sleep. I agonized over every word. More Than a Game is the story I wanted to tell, a simple story of a father’s love for his child and the bond baseball spins through families. Toledo Blade Article