Description
“The magic lies in the storytelling that travels the road to something perfect.” – Donna Johnson, author of Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir
“Tenderly poignant, wise and affecting” — Kirkus
The rarest outcome in sports is baseball’s perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing the other team to accomplish nothing. In 150 years of baseball, there have only been 23. Perfect is nearly impossible. As a divorced dad, Ron was trying to redeem his fatherhood on a perfect baseball road trip with his Little League son Nicky. Their odyssey of nine games in eleven days, crossing eight states in a rented convertible, was supposed to salvage Ron’s life as an unsure father. One sign of salvation came unbidden in an unscheduled tenth game.
The adventures and revelations of the road led to a deeper reckoning of how Ron’s father had failed enough to take his own life. Thousands of miles and dozens of innings delivered a discovery: a drive toward perfect fatherhood has a destination that cannot be found on any map.
For readers of Buzz Bissinger’s Father’s Day and Dan Shaughnessy’s Senior Year, Stealing Home is a book for fathers and sons finding ways to repair relationships, survivors of family suicides, and baseball lovers who can revel in an historic major league moment.
