Cliff Yeargin’s “Sweet Tater Tango” is a Minor League Baseball Fun Ride
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In this episode 288, we visit with Cliff Yeargin author of “Sweet Tater Tango,” the fifth book in the Jake Eliam Chickenbone Mystery Series.
The ChickenBone Mystery series features a former baseball player, turned reluctant PI, Jake Eliam and his best friend and benefactor, Bobby ‘Catfish’ Wilson, former college football hero and owner of The 3 Pigs BBQ. In “Sweet Tater Tango,” The Southern Nights Baseball League needs investors, so Catfish switches sports to become part owner of the Tully City TaterHeads. Despite sensing a bad mojo, Jake signs on as Manager for a fat paycheck. The brains behind the league, Billy Bonz, cares more about pig races, ticket gate monkeys and beer nights than baseball. During the biggest promotion of the summer, a legendary car from a famous TV Show barrels through the outfield fence and disappears into the night. Jake is forced to lead a new team to find the expensive ride or nobody will earn a penny.
The judge who awarded Cliff the Silver Medal in the 2016 Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Mystery/Detective Category said, “clipped one-liners; snappy retorts; terse, quick writing; minimalist with no wasted words; grabbed me from the beginning.”
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About the Author:
Cliff Yeargin has spent his life as a ‘Storyteller, traveling the U.S. as a Writer/Producer/Photographer and Editor in Broadcast journalism.
He began his career in the mountains of Western North Carolina where he worked with two college buddies, both who went on to become Sports Broadcasting Legends. Yeargin did not, but he did shoot the only video of the first 3-Point goal in the history of NCAA College Basketball. This is NOT fiction…you can look it up!
His travels as a broadcaster have taken him to dozens of Major League ballparks, World Series, Super Bowls, Final Fours, NASCAR, National Championships and he managed to convince his bosses for many, many years that staying at a Baseball Spring Training camp for two months involved hard work and sacrifice.
He has written stories in more places than you can count. In dugouts with rats under his feet, smelly locker rooms, planes, trains, hotel bars, buses at 4AM outside Detroit. All while submitting a staggering number of falsified expense reports.
He grew up on a rural cattle farm in Georgia, which taught him many valuable life lessons, such as never poke a big bull in the rear with a big stick.
A proud Bulldog graduate of the University of Georgia, he has now returned to his native state and lives in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood.
He says, “there is no Atlanta neighborhood known as ChickenBone…but there should be.”
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