Mike Robertson, now resigned to the routine of retirement, has long entertained the notion that he may have literary endowments, a compulsion he has pursued over the past decade with the publication of various projects. His most recent effort, a novel entitled "The First Communion Murders", is his eighth book, joining three collections of short stories, "Casting Shadows", "Parts of A Past", and "These Memories Clear", three volumes of literary entertainments entitled "The Smart Aleck Chronicles" and a barely recalled novel entitled "Gone and Back". For reasons unknown, Mike Robertson, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, is an avid sports fan and has been playing sandlot baseball for over 50 years.