Bunt!

by Bill Baynes

Bennie Bruno is no homerun hero. He's a small, scrappy everyboy, the kind of kid who has to earn everything he gets with extra effort. Yet he's big enough to change baseball all by himself.

Bennie develops an amazing way of batting, a special control of balls in the infield. When he's called up to the minor league Sierra Bears, his spinning, twisting hits excite the fans and propel the team to the brink of a league championship.

189 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Bill Baynes is a writer, producer and director who lives in Belmont, CA. He has worked in many media formats, ranging from newspapers to live television to feature films to magazines to websites. He has previously written for the Miami Herald and the Associated Press, and won awards as a documentary filmmaker. A specialist in public interest marketing, he has developed dozens of media campaigns about health-related topics for federal, state and local agencies. He has assisted school systems, teaching students to create their own messages on various issues, such as tobacco and alcohol abuse.

His young adult baseball novel, Bunt! was released by Silverback Sages Publishers in 2013. Mrs. Spooner’s Special Day, a novella about a homeless woman at Christmastime, was published by The Long Story in 2016. His WWII novella, The Occupation of Joe, is set for release by Top Hat Books in August, 2018. His middle-grade children’s novel, The Coyote Who Braved Baseball, will be released by Thurston Howl Publications in early 2019.

Bill is a member of the Historical Novel Society, the California Writers Club SF Peninsula Branch and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.