A Genealogist Turns Baseball History Into A Redemption Story
One dusty closet under a Detroit ballpark turns into a doorway that can rewrite sports history and maybe the whole country. We sit down with author and genealogist Timothy Bernard Carr to unpack Timing Is Everything, his new historical fiction time travel novel that starts with the Detroit Tigers’ disastrous 2003 season and then launches straight into the biggest “what if” swings in baseball.
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Tim explains how his background in Irish American genealogy shaped the way he writes: anchored in real people, real dates, and real consequences. That foundation lets the story jump from Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Olympic controversy to 1933 Detroit, where a very real near miss with Babe Ruth becomes the spark for an alternate Tigers dynasty. We talk through how Tim approaches truth vs invention, why redemption drives the main character Mark Killeran, and how one change can ripple from the Negro Leagues and the color barrier into military integration and the political shocks that shaped the 1960s.
The conversation also gets practical for readers and writers curious about modern publishing. Tim shares how he brought the book to market using Amazon KDP, why he leaned on outside help for editing and marketing, and what authors watch for in an age of scanning and reposting. We wrap with his work in the Irish American Baseball Society and the push to grow baseball in Ireland, plus what he wants to write next. Subscribe, share this with a baseball history fan, and leave a review, then tell us what moment in history you would change first.
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