Scooter - Mick Foley

Wrestling legend turned author Mick Foley writes this entertaining novel SCOOTER. The novel focuses on a young boy called Scooter Reilly named after his Dad's favourite baseball player. The novel focuses on him growing up in the Bronx during the 1960's where there were big changes going on in America. The novel starts with Scooter as a four year old boy and then we see him grow up. Life takes some unfortunate twists of fate for Scooter as his beloved Grandfather and father fall out meaning he can't see is Grandad. Scooter is involved in a horrible accident that means he can't walk properly ruining his baseball dreams. Nonetheless, Scooter makes the ...  Read the complete review

There are some places you don't expect to find someone with great novel writing talents. Actors, models, politicians and presenters have tried writing with varying levels of quality and success. Perhaps the most unlikely and possibly the best of them all is Mick Foley, a man who spent a long career as a WWE wrestler, which involved being hit around the head rather a lot. Despite this, or maybe because of this, he has subsequently become a very decent writer and "Scooter" is his second novel. Scooter Reilly is a young child in 1960s New York, inheriting his unfortunate name from the former Yankees player Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto. It's a ...  Read the complete review