Chapter 7Dave McAllister, right fielder for the Brookeville Scorpions, gazed from the cards in his hand to his three friends, also members of the team, as they sat around the card table in his hotel room in Houston. Wednesday night poker games, no matter where they were held, were fun—at least they had been, until Clancy Makem had left the team a few weeks ago. They used to be called the Five Horsemen, but now…He sighed. They were a great bunch of guys, but it wasn’t the same without their shortstop.
Clance having to retire left a huge hole—in their team and their lives. Dave and Clancy were the oldest of the friends, having been recruited around the same time, in the mid ‘00s, while the other three, a few years their junior, had become part of their little coterie shortly after they’d pu
