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A dusty closet under a ballpark sounds harmless until it becomes a doorway to the past. We talk with author and genealogist Timothy Bernard Carr about Timing Is Everything, a fast-moving historical fiction time travel novel that starts in Detroit with the 2003 Tigers and then dares to rewrite the moments that still sting. If you love Detroit sports, baseball history, or Irish American storytelling, this one lands right in that sweet spot where research meets imagination.

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We dig into how genealogy shaped Carr’s voice, why Rocky Road to America began as “just family research,” and how real events became the backbone for a bigger story. His main character, Mark Killeran, carries the weight of Vietnam and a lifetime of regret, then finds himself face-to-face with American legends and American mistakes. Jim Thorpe’s 1912 medal scandal, Frank Navin’s Tigers, a Babe Ruth curveball, and Ty Cobb’s complicated reputation all become turning points in an alternate history that asks what “redemption” would actually cost.

Then the ripples get bigger: breaking the color barrier earlier, pushing integration beyond baseball, and imagining a very different path through JFK-era politics and the Vietnam War. We also get practical about modern self-publishing through Amazon KDP, where to find the book, and why authors have to think about piracy in the digital age. Subscribe, share this with a baseball fan or history buff, and leave a review with the one moment you’d change if you had Killeran’s chance.

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