An excellent story that takes the reader’s emotion to a high level as Calico Joe succeeds in baseball, and then to a low as he is injured by his “own” father with a baseball to the head. Then as time goes on, and many years pass, his father who apologized infrequently, came back and apologized to Joe before going back to Florida and dying.

A story of bad behavior and redemption. East to read and feel empathy for the characters.

Traveling to and from work every day makes for a long undesirable time. In addition to having kids at home that want attention constantly, books are not much of an option. Picking this audio book proved great for hearing the “action” of the book and a chance to see Grisham at work. I would highly recommend this as a quick read. I can’t wait for my oldest baseball child to jump into this so we can talk about the greats spotlighted in the novel and how one individual can impact a sport.

This was the first John Grisham sports book that I read. I actually enjoyed the read and loved the characters. There were no big surprises as he does in his legal thrillers.

A very tedious, bitter story filled with statistics, names and dates. Subpar for Grishom.

Grisham is an easy to read author who in his early days had a story to tell but no longer.He just phones it in.

I love John Grishams books especially when he goes in to a sports theme. can't wait for his next sports based book. I have been reading his books since his very first book

Being Jg's third book of sports fiction that I have read, I must say I would just prefer he give up writing everything else. Don't get me wrong, I have read or listened to just about every book he has published, but I get much more enjoyment out of his sports novels, even though they are not as well written.

This book was a good read.

Wow! This is not Grisham at his greatest fast action packed self. It's Grisham at his deadliest. He is so good at details that you keep hoping that this book isn't taking you where you are sure he is going! Unfortunately, what should have been a chapter becomes an entire book? Yes folks this is even deadlier that the game of baseball and golf, and did I mention slower