Here viewed as a pastime through the eyes of a lifelong amateur player, baseball unfolds as an experience of motion and time and senses - the work of muscle, the textures of wood and leather, the warmth of sun, the scents of a grassy field.

Here viewed as a pastime through the eyes of a lifelong amateur player, baseball unfolds as an experience of motion and time and senses. These interwoven essays reflect on the pursuit of a ball and on what is crucially human.