Talk about talking points- this book really has them. And they’re wrapped up nice and tightly in one of them most delightful coming of age stories you’ll ever read. Like baseball? 50s Nostalgia? Rock and roll? Boys being boys in 1957 Detroit? This book’s got all of that…. But let’s get back to baseball for a second – always a strong genre. Do you know how many ways a player can get out as either a runner or a batter? Mike Worden knew and the answer is in his book. And, as part of our marketing campaign, if a reader writes to Gold Leaf Press, we’ll send out the entire list. Part fiction, part autobiography, Mike Worden just thought he was writing his memoirs when he finished his manuscript and first approached Gold Leaf Press. But we saw so much more……. Fortunately so did Baseball Weekly, book reviewers, sportswriters and readers across the U.S.