The Assistant Coaches: A story about baseball

GEORGE GRANT RETIRED from baseball after leading a professional team to back-to-back World Series Championships. George is content to return to his first love-farming. He's looking forward to getting back on a tractor and helping with the spring planting.

That won't happen for two months. In early March George and Marcy plan to spend several days visiting with their friends Toby and Mona Corbet. Toby is the baseball coach at the State University in the state capital. Toby was George's teammate when the Central High Tigers won their first state baseball championship.

Then George and Marcy are going to spend a week in Phoenix attending Cactus League baseball games before taking a leisurely trip up through California and Oregon while winter turns into spring back at the farm.

As 56-year-old George has discovered many times in his life, things don't always turn out like they are planned. A devastating accident and suddenly George is faced with a challenge unlike anything he has ever faced before.