Long Gone: 2

About this book

A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball the class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s with a sour old maverick manager a yearning teenage second baseman and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel. Newsweek. "A sharp unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life believably and memorably. Sports Illustrated. "So good so true so funny... New York Times Book Review.