Last year really was the year we fell in love with baseball again, and Lupica captures it wonderfully, often through interesting angles: Kerry Wood's high school coach, the scout who discovered Sammy Sosa, Joe DiMaggio on Yankees past and present. But it's much more than a baseball book. It's about fathers and sons, the things that Lupica's father passed on to him and that he passed on to his sons. As a portrait of parenthood, it's the best I've read in a long time. I recommend it to everyone.