Perfect, Once Removed When Baseball Was All the World to Me

"Disguised as a nostalgic, coming-of-age baseball memoir, this is a sly, spare meditation on the perils of childhood, the power of celebrity, the vagaries of human kindness, and how even tenuous family bonds can have a surprisingly steely impact."Joe Pilla, Paperbacks Plus In pitch-perfect prose, and with a gift for conveying the fears and dreams of a young boy's life, Phil Hoose recalls the magical year of 1956, when his cousin, Don Larsen, pitched a perfect game in the World Series, and the game of baseball helped him take root in a tough new town.Perfect, Once Removedis a wondrous ode to the glory of baseball and to growing up.Hoose, Phillip is the author of 'Perfect, Once Removed When Baseball Was All the World to Me', published 2008 under ISBN 9780802716279 and ISBN 080271627X.