Will this book every get a middling review? First The New York Times calls it “not only a wonderful baseball novel — it zooms immediately into the pantheon of classics, alongside “The Natural” by Bernard Malamud and “The Southpaw” by Mark Harris — but it’s also a magical, melancholy story about friendship and coming of age that marks the debut of an immensely talented writer.”
Then Entertainment Weekly put it on its Top 10 Must list in its current edition. Although it did give it “only” a B+.










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