The Wall Street Journal

John Grisham returns to the scene of his crime

John Grisham returns to the scene of his crime
John Grisham's childhood ambition was to be a pro baseball player. (Image: The Wall Street Journal)
The Wall Street Journal
By Zachary Fine On a humid morning in mid-July, John Grisham was lounging under a candy-striped awning at Cove Creek Park, a multimillion-dollar youth baseball complex outside Charlottesville, Virginia. He looked comfortable and sweatless in the heat, wearing a crisp white button-down with the sleeves rolled up, slate-coloured chinos, understated sneakers and a wristwatch with a slice of an MLB baseball mounted onto its dial. He was surrounded by 16 or so hectares of cow pasture that, in the 1990s, he’d transformed into a b...

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