Seasons in Manana

Baseball, beaches, going barefoot at school...

For Alan Cook, it's great to be a kid in early 1970s Hawaii. Recent transplants from Tennessee, Alan and his family find themselves thrust into a new world that straddles military and island civilian; traditional armed forces and anti-military counterculture. Baseball. It is young Alan Cook's Hawaii obsession. So manic is Alan about the game, that he sees his

Little League outings as a springboard for a career in the Major Leagues. But Alan has a...