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“Blending intimate personal memories with public events over a long time span is a tricky affair. Higgins carries it off with nary an error.” New York Times
“A warm, sentimental journey…Higgins’ writing is as crisp as a well-pitched game under the shadows of Fenway’s Green Monster left-field wall.” People
“At once refreshingly traditional yet innovative, Higgins is a writer of Balzacian appetite, trying to lift the lid off the human comedy, using Bostonas his fulcrum.” GQ
“In this affecting memoir, with prose as sharp as a live-drive single, Higgins shows how his love of baseball is matched only by his love of his father and grandfather, men who introduced him to the game forty year earlier. Ian Esmo reads with care, maintaining a steady pace.” AudioFile