Camp Ford

In his new novel, Boggs manages to deftly combine three American icons: the Old West, the Civil War, and baseball when it was only beginning to be the great American pastime. During the 1946 World Series, ninety-nine-year-old Win MacNaughton recalls the greatest baseball game of his entire life between a ragtag collection of Union prisoners of war against a squad of Confederate prison guards. In this Spur Award–winning novel, Union prisoners in Texas's Camp Ford challenge their Confederate guards to a baseball game with life or death stakes. In this Spur Award-winning novel, Union prisoners in Texas's Camp Ford challenge their Confederate guards to a baseball game with life of death stakes