“This is a story that had to be told. It’s a story of hope, a story of perception in how we treat one another in our darkest moments when society said ‘this is your last stop.’ ”

That’s the way St. Paulite Pat Harris describes his moving debut novel, “A Season on the Drink,” a fictional account of the St. Anthony Residence rec league softball club that won a 1986 championship against all odds. It was an astonishing win because the team was made up of chronic alcoholics who lived in the “wet house” in St. Paul’s Midway that some felt was their last stop before dying of drink.

“…the old Saint Anthony residence was not a hotel. It was not a motel, either.” Harris writes. “It was a home.”

The home was falling apart. The front door was rusty and the old plumbing in the odorous bathroom had t

See Full Page