Our bookclub decided to read this as part of a regional bookclub read. The club was divided by how they felt about the book. Half enjoyed half didn't. Turned out that the ones that enjoyed it are baseball fans - the ones that didn't, weren't fans. It was compared to the movie Field of Dreams which was based on this book. We kept hearing James Earl Jones and Kevin Costner as we were reading the book!!
The book itself takes dreams and makes them real. It talks about Shoeless Joe and the rest of the White Sox baseball 8 who were banned for life.
Over all, it was a good book for sports fans.