The Girl Who Saved Baseball

<i>The Girl Who Saved Baseball</i> is humorous yet occasionally bittersweet. Written from the viewpoint of an aging minor league baseball manager who finds new purpose in life by guiding four promising players. One is a girl who has a mission not only to make the major leagues but also to save baseball from the stigma of have and have-not teams runaway salaries and the temptations of steroids. It rings with baseball lore past and present and takes the reader into the world of baseball--owners players managers agents talent scouts. Yet it never loses sight that the novel is about people their struggles needs and wants disappointments and their achievements.