Baseball in a Grain of Sand

<p> Part sports journalism part history part memoir this many-sided narrative follows one season with the Blue Devils of Moscow Idaho--a rural American Legion baseball team. Showcasing baseball's enduring place in American life the author draws on the lore of the game and conversations with diverse fans and players--an outdoorsman juggling his son's schedule of games with bear hunting; a bewildered German college student holding a baseball for the first time; former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher & Yale baseball coach John Stuper; the proud owner of a Derek Jeter jersey in Hokendauqua Pennsylvania to name a few.</p>