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Base and Balls
Pitching with his heart meant finding a home
Derby Ward, the hottest pitcher in MLB, went home to buy his mother a new house. But when he got there, he’d thrown himself a changeup. Now he has to figure out how to make Godwin his home team.
Godwin Ellis, best builder in Alabama, hadn’t realized he needed to make changes in his life, until a certain baseball player threw him a curve. Now Godwin needs to decide if he’s going to exist in the box he built for himself or take a chance on Derby’s love.
Home base never meant so much.
Sports romance, Pro baseball player, Sweet home builder, Finding love, Finding home, Taking chance, Hitting the curve ball, Sliding in for home
Derby Ward, the hottest pitcher in MLB, went home to buy his mother a new house. But when he got there, he’d thrown himself a changeup. Now he has to figure out how to make Godwin his home team.
Godwin Ellis, best builder in Alabama, hadn’t realized he needed to make changes in his life, until a certain baseball player threw him a curve. Now Godwin needs to decide if he’s going to exist in the box he built for himself or take a chance on Derby’s love.
Home base never meant so much.
Sports romance, Pro baseball player, Sweet home builder, Finding love, Finding home, Taking chance, Hitting the curve ball, Sliding in for home
102 pages, Paperback
Published May 21, 2023
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About the author
Lynn Michaels
82 books301 followersLynn Michaels lives and writes in Tampa, Florida where the sun is hot and the Sangria is cold. When she’s not writing she’s kayaking, hanging with her husband, or reading by the pool. Lynn writes Male/Male romance because she believes everyone deserves a happy ending and the dynamics of male characters can be intriguing, vulnerable, and exciting. She has both contemporary and paranormal titles and has been writing since 2014. Her stories don’t follow any set guidelines or ideas, but come from her heart and contain love in many forms.
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January 12, 2022
MM Sports Romance
DNF @ 82%
This is one of those freebies from the year long mm book boyfriend Facebook group. I downloaded all of them and I’m thinking that may have been a bad decision after suffering through this one. This read like a MF book not MM. When I looked at this author’s books, they were all MF except this and one other. Not everyone can write MM and just shouldn’t attempt it. The character Derby Ward was supposed to be a baseball player yet was constantly giggling, had butterflies swooning in his tummy and squealed with delight at everything. Those are the authors words. I’m not saying men can’t say those things but the way it was written made me feel like this used to be a MF book but the occupation was changed along with the sex scenes (which were godawful btw).
Also, this was sooooo boringggggg. 💤 And for being only 94 pages, that’s a problem. I cannot.
DNF @ 82%
This is one of those freebies from the year long mm book boyfriend Facebook group. I downloaded all of them and I’m thinking that may have been a bad decision after suffering through this one. This read like a MF book not MM. When I looked at this author’s books, they were all MF except this and one other. Not everyone can write MM and just shouldn’t attempt it. The character Derby Ward was supposed to be a baseball player yet was constantly giggling, had butterflies swooning in his tummy and squealed with delight at everything. Those are the authors words. I’m not saying men can’t say those things but the way it was written made me feel like this used to be a MF book but the occupation was changed along with the sex scenes (which were godawful btw).
Also, this was sooooo boringggggg. 💤 And for being only 94 pages, that’s a problem. I cannot.
December 21, 2023
Another strike out with a baseball book.
It was free last month and only 110 pages, but I fell asleep reading the first sex scene (physically fell asleep, not metaphorically), so I'm stopping at 43%.
The writing is clunky and full of I, I, I. And there's a huge difference between insta-lust and having a character we know nothing about immediately thinking oh, yeah I want to fuck that guy. I mean, I read 20 page erotica novellas that give better buildup.
I LOVE baseball, but I didn't like the MC enough to care when reading the baseball scenes.
And then there was this cringe scene:
“Oh...my baby boy has a crush,” she singsonged and danced in her chair. “Derby and the builder sitting in a tree...”
That's the MC's mother singing to her son. Just ewww, awkward and weird.
It was free last month and only 110 pages, but I fell asleep reading the first sex scene (physically fell asleep, not metaphorically), so I'm stopping at 43%.
The writing is clunky and full of I, I, I. And there's a huge difference between insta-lust and having a character we know nothing about immediately thinking oh, yeah I want to fuck that guy. I mean, I read 20 page erotica novellas that give better buildup.
I LOVE baseball, but I didn't like the MC enough to care when reading the baseball scenes.
And then there was this cringe scene:
“Oh...my baby boy has a crush,” she singsonged and danced in her chair. “Derby and the builder sitting in a tree...”
That's the MC's mother singing to her son. Just ewww, awkward and weird.
July 11, 2022
To say I've read this is a bit of an overstatement. I gave up at the beginning of the second chapter. Derby's personality is awful, I wanted to drown him in a spoonful of water. The story was unoriginal, the characers shallow not to mention BORING. I was checking how many pages were left after only 10. Yeah, there was no way I was torturing myself with this any longer.
March 16, 2022
Gonna start rating the YBBB free shorts. Unfortunately, I have to start with this one, which was holy shit terrible. MF authors, please don't recycle your books by changing the pronouns. It doesn't work.
January 16, 2022
Short and sweet. Loved derby’s personality and his upbeat bubbly self. He made you want to bounce around and just smile. Loved how he balanced Godwin. They were each others other half. Steamy with some slight dominate kink. Nice story.
March 24, 2022
Cute novella set in the professional baseball world, with the lead pitcher for the fictitious expansion team in Mobile. Michaels flashes out Derby as he courts the builder Godwin as a house is built, while playing ball. The tension is played just right, and the resolution is wishful.
August 10, 2025
Derby Ward, pitcher for the Mobile Mystics, falls for his mother's house builder, Godwin. Godwin has a bunch of hangups and is afraid of commitment. It is only after he commits to going to architecture school that he settles down and commits to Derby as well.
July 7, 2025
A cute novella set in the baseball world. Buying his mother a house brings one sexy man into Derby's life, with good, sexy and bad results. A short but nice read.
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