"Safe Passage Guaranteed"
Author: Pete Torrey
Author: Pete Torrey
Authors contact email: ptorrey24@gmail.com
Authors' phone number: 925-595-4101.
The book is an historical fiction novel based on true events/hard copy or on-line available on Amazon.
Authors' phone number: 925-595-4101.
The book is an historical fiction novel based on true events/hard copy or on-line available on Amazon.
Pete
Torrey, a long-time Walnut Creek, California resident and former
television sportscaster, has hit the bull’s eye with his historical
fiction novel, “Safe Passage Guaranteed,” based on true events. The
story, focusing on the relationship between two Indiana high school
basketball teams in the 1970s, one black and one white, carries a
message that is even more powerful today than it was 50 years ago.
Torrey, during his tenure at WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana, stumbled across a true story that he promised not to tell until now. While playing in a pick-up basketball game he overheard two teenagers, one black and one white, planning a series of secret summer games involving no coaches, no parents, no referees, and no press. The players, fearing the games would be politicized and misunderstood, made him promise not to tell the story until they were “really old like 50.” So Pete colorfully tells the kids’story as he imagined that the games played out. He sandwiches the basketball tale around many of main character Nick Cunningham’s zany and hilarious television adventures, including interviews with many of the era’s top sports icons like Hank Aaron, John Wooden, John Madden and others.
In the course of playing the summer basketball games, the players from both teams realize that they share more than their hoop dreams of being Indiana State Champs, and unknowingly give a community and a nation a much needed lesson in compassion and race relations. Torrey’s fictionalized account of this yarn is a true “feel good story” not be missed! “Safe Passage Guaranteed” is currently available on Amazon.
Torrey, during his tenure at WANE-TV in Fort Wayne, Indiana, stumbled across a true story that he promised not to tell until now. While playing in a pick-up basketball game he overheard two teenagers, one black and one white, planning a series of secret summer games involving no coaches, no parents, no referees, and no press. The players, fearing the games would be politicized and misunderstood, made him promise not to tell the story until they were “really old like 50.” So Pete colorfully tells the kids’story as he imagined that the games played out. He sandwiches the basketball tale around many of main character Nick Cunningham’s zany and hilarious television adventures, including interviews with many of the era’s top sports icons like Hank Aaron, John Wooden, John Madden and others.
In the course of playing the summer basketball games, the players from both teams realize that they share more than their hoop dreams of being Indiana State Champs, and unknowingly give a community and a nation a much needed lesson in compassion and race relations. Torrey’s fictionalized account of this yarn is a true “feel good story” not be missed! “Safe Passage Guaranteed” is currently available on Amazon.
Awards Won
BRONZE Award: Depth of Field International Film Festival
