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Thank you for visiting DeanRWhitney.com, the official website of author and screenwriter Dean Whitney. This site provides information regarding my debut novel, Pinch Hitter, and screenwriting projects.
UPDATE APRIL 2010
I'm proud to announce that I am now represented as a screenwriter by Alexia Melocchi of LITTLE STUDIO FILMS in Beverly Hills. The scripts that Alexia will initially work with are:
THE FINAL TABLE
Poker is known to be a game with high stakes. But when Nick Vincent and eight other world class players are abducted and forced to play for their mysterious captor, they quickly realize they’re playing for their lives in what could be their last hand—ever.
UNDAUNTED
His troops respect him, his niece adores him, his brother-in-law hates him, the drug cartels are after him…but one thing is certain—Jake Rogan is the good kind of rebel. Recently out of the army, he quickly finds himself in over his head with the drug cartels in Mexico while trying to save his niece. Jake will accomplish his mission—but it will require playing by his own rules.
Information on Alexia Melocchi and LITTLE STUDIO FILMS.
Pinch Hitter
SYNOPSIS
Pinch Hitter is the poignant story about a middle-aged electronics salesman who fulfills a childhood dream of playing big league baseball for his hometown team.
A superior high school athlete, David Robbins fantasized about becoming a big league ballplayer until his older brother—a teammate and highly-scouted senior pitcher—was seriously injured during a team practice. Devastated by his brother’s career-ending accident, David quits the team and vows never again to play organized baseball. He remains a student of the game, however, and over the next twenty-nine years logs countless hours honing his hitting skills in local batting cages.
And then one day, out of the blue, he’s asked by a friend to play in an amateur league game for a team that will be forced to forfeit if he declines. Although deeply conflicted by his dilemma, he ultimately decides to end his self-imposed abstention from baseball and agrees to play. Going 4-for-4 with a home run in that game, David’s superlative hitting instincts catch the eye of Lester Pittman, the manager of the San Diego Armadas—a major league club besieged by injuries and in dire need of offensive help while in the heat of a divisional race. Impressed with David’s abilities and knowledge of baseball, the manager invites him to a team workout. The ensuing events astound the San Diego fans and the entire baseball community.
While capturing the hearts of the fans and learning to cope with an overzealous media, David soon discovers the cost of celebrity and is forced to reveal a family secret. Through it all, he learns that sometimes even crazy dreams come true.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
California native Dean Whitney has been enamored with baseball since he was a kid. The inspiration for this novel came from the millions of men past their prime who live out their professional baseball dreams vicariously through their favorite major leaguers.