100 Miles of Baseball
Fifty Games, One Summer
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March 1, 2021
Few baseball fans could describe how Karlis Mikelsteins pitches out of the stretch for the Mississauga Terriers in Canada's professional baseball league. But coauthors Dale and Heidi LM Jacobs do just that as part of their account of the 50 baseball games--high school, college, amateur, and professional--they attended in the spring and summer of 2018, all within 100 miles of their Windsor, Ontario, home. That narrative lets readers see the dazzling skills of major leaguers such as Michael Fulmer and Gregory Palanco, but it focuses more on the gallant efforts of players like Mikelsteins who struggle to master a game they love. Readers, indeed, see the ways that fans--old and young, privileged and hard-pressed--share that love, even when the teams they root for (the Terriers, the Mammoths, the Hoppers) must retrieve foul balls from the parking lot. The Jacobses unfold more than accounts of games: they provide insight into a shared celebration of life, integral to their own life histories and those of many others in the bleachers. Precious experiences with baseball that won't fit in a box score.
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