A lazy spring evening at the ballpark. I want to be there - watching the guys who will be heroes in tomorrow's newspaper story or showing us how to do the impossible on the play of the day.
Phillip Hoose was eight years old, living in a new town when he discovered the importance of baseball. However, health issues kept him from school and the baseball field.
Then one day his mother told him he should ask for help from his cousin, a pitcher for the New York Yankees. Hoose wrote to him and began a long-distance relationship with Don Larsen, a man on the verge of greatness.
Hoose met Larsen and such Yankee greats as Yogi Berra and Casey Stengel; he saw the loner Mickey Mantle from across the room. In a satisfying close to this story, the author visits with his now 80-year-old cousin.
Hoose's story, Perfect, Once Removed is available for the Kindle today for only $3.72. I love reading a story about true life heroes to little boys.
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