Son Louis will save the life of a Confederate soldier who loves baseball as much as he does.
First-generation German Jewish immigrant Felix is injured while fighting a Manhattan fire, and he never gets a chance to play the game, but his hand-sewn baseball and devotion to the game will pass to his heirs. From the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, baseball has run in the veins of the Schneiders, and the nine short stories that constitute this latest baseball outing from Gratz (author of Samurai Shortstop, BCCB 7/06) cunningly illuminate the confluence of baseball and family history as it plays out across nine generations.
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