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Tales of Harold Fungo — The novel ‘Pinch Hitting’ weaves a fantastical baseball story based in Colorado

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Courtesy Morris Hoffman
“Pinch Hitting,” by Morris Hoffman, is a fantastical baseball story set in Northern Colorado.

In the novel "Pinch Hitting," Harold Fungo goes from the maintenance staff where a local minor league team plays, to becoming a star player, moving all the way up to the major leagues. As it turns out, the unlikely climb is all a figment of the imagination of Joe -- who has no idea of how he's writing the fantastical tale. Morris Hoffman, a retired district court judge, is the author of the book.