It sort of became a running joke that it was taking me longer to finish reading this than it did to finish the game in question. But once I had the time to focus on it, I loved the stories behind the story — the players, the fans, the stadium itself. I’m a baseball fan to start with, but what I loved was the human aspect of the recounting.

Lost a star because one of the reasons I initially struggled to get into it was the writing in the early pages. Much too wordy and hard to focus, but smoothed out later on.