The Man for Me

by Gemma Bruce

Book Overview

Squeeze Play The bragging. The pin-ups. The sweaty socks. Please oh please, set me free Female sportswriter J.T. Green wants out of the locker room--until star pitcher Tommy Bainbridge walks in. Tommy defines the word hot: He's tall, a terrific kisser, and a total catch. J.T. wants everything he has to give. But Gilbeytown, PA, needs their hometown boy back where he belongs and if his plans to help get leaked to the press, there's going to be hell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758216238
• ISBN13: 9780758216236
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Baseball, Sweet Romance - but Price a little high...

Jessica Green (aka J.T.) is a sports writer who has a famous baseball father and Sports Today only hired her because of her father. Now a scandal over photoshop picture has sent her to cover the Beavers. Tommy is a famous baseball pitcher who is from Gilbeytown, Pa. home of the Beavers. Once J.T. & Tommy ,hit it off in the first few pages. This was a nice baseball romance with a mystery sub-plot. My only issue with this book was the price - Some of the Sports Romance novels on my summer reading listSliding Home, Power Play (Berkley Sensation), True Love and Other Disasters.

Fantastic Read

THE MAN FOR ME is an excellent read. Gemma Bruce, also known as Shelley Freydont, has written a tour de force about a minor league baseball team in a Pennsylvania steel mill town that has seen better days. Gilbeytown, PA is in itself a character in this novel. To me it represents Everytown USA whose industry has abandoned its people. J.T Green must redeem herself by covering the Gilbeytown Beavers minor league baseball team for the magazine, "Sports Today" or face the loss of her job and banishment from the only profession she cares about--sports journalism. Being a female in an all male world can be tough enough, but she is forced to confront mysterious forces bent on destroying not only her reputation, but also the only baseball team Gilbeytown residents have had since the 1920's. When she meets major league star pitcher of the Galaxies, Tommy Bainbridge, sparks fly for both of them, yet they skirt around one another warily. He's afraid of getting burned again by yet another baseball groupie, while she is looking for the reason he's not with his team. Officially, Tommy Bainbridge, who had grown up in Gilbeytown, was visiting his family. Why wasn't he with his team where he belonged? It's a hot scoop of a baseball story, one that would redeem her damaged reputation. The answer will surprise you in this page turner that will take you for a roller coaster ride up to the last page.

fun sports romance

Sports Today is a popular national weekly magazine. Writer J.T. Green writes for the magazine with hopes that players, managers and fans will take her work as honest serious reporting. However, an embarrassing locker room incident leaves her in exile in Pennsylvania covering the news no one but a local would be interested in. She is covering the Gilbeytown Beavers, a team with a losing streak. In town is renowned superstar pitcher Tommy Bainbridge, who plans to help the Beavers win. When the pitcher and the reporter meet, they are attracted to one another, but between their jobs implying an intimate relationship taboo and their distrust of the other's vocation, this couple has no chance but to strike out especially when JT uncovers a conspiracy for the team to lose. This fun sports romance with a nod to the movie Major League is a home run as baseball pulls the nine inning plot. J.T. is a feisty independent reporter doing her job while Tommy is the perfect throwback athletic hero (some will insist caricature). The venue is terrifically described and the investigation filled with suspense. Additionally baseball fans will enjoy their romance as he strikes out with her but keeps swinging the bat in an effort to hit a game winning home run. Harriet Klausner