Carrozzi has taken an actual game, Giants vs. Reds on July 6, 1961, and reproduced a city's affection in neat story form. It begins on a bright San Francisco morning when two boys from a low-end district, penniless, decide to walk a few miles to Candlestick Park, sneak into the game, try to catch a batting practice ball, only to find themselves in box seats, join the cheers and jeers, hear the sages discuss the secrets of The Game and finally, at game's end, begin an exhilarated yet exhausted walk home.
"Craig Carrozzi has written an absorbing piece of historical fiction, an easy page-turner of a young boy's first look at a major league baseball game. In all, the entire story encompasses a few hours and yet, it spans generations of baseball lore, urban ethnicity, the possessive instincts of fans to the home team and turf; the gaps of youth and age.... in sum, the gamut of human behavior." - Art Rosenbaum, San Francisco Chronicle.
"A helluva good book." - Orlando Cepeda, former Giants great.
