Slow, uninteresting at first --- after 100 pages or so the point of the story began to surface. Although the ending was a bit shallow, it did bring a tear to the eye!

There was not a lot to discuss in this interesting and informative book. I learned a lot about baseball and pitching -howdo they do that?! - but once we got beyond the two very different families, the evils of drink and abuse, and the essence of forgiveness, we were at a loss for continued conversation. So we discussed that afternoons Cubs-Mets game some of us had attended that afternoon at Wrigley Field (The Cubs lost 2 to 3).