The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O’Leary’s life. He can’t manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he’s living out of a suitcase, and he’s homesick. When the team’s owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he’s ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he’s already on thin ice, so he has no choice but to agree. Mark Bailey is not sports reporter. He writes for the arts page, and these days he’s barely even managing to… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Period-typical homophobia, racism & antisemitism including mentions of the gay protagonist being disowned and kicked out of home as a teenager
- Infidelity mentioned (secondary characters)
- Alcohol consumption & mentions of smoking, tobacco and drug use
- Hospitalisation (secondary character)
- Grief & loss depiction
- Death of an abusive parent with alcoholism in a drunk-driving accident recounted
- Death of a partner from a heart attack discussed
- Death of a grandparent from a heart attack recounted
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