A home-run gift for a baseball fanatic.

        Kirkus Reviews       

With its charming wordplay and humor, this book should win an audience among readers who long for the sun-warmed days of the baseball season all year long.

        School Library Journal  

With its enticing topic, sympathetic approach, and accessible verse for reading alone or aloud, this will bring youngsters out of the poetry dugout.

        The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Read alone or aloud, this provides just the ticket for driving out winter doldrums.

        Booklist

A fun story-threaded collection of 38 poems in a combination of free verse and rhyming forms.

        Sylvia Vardell, poetryforchildren.blogspot.com

Little Leaguers and sandlot players will love these witty pieces that look at all aspects of the game, from superstitions to the sweetness of coming home at dusk, from the view from the bench to days when games get rained out.

        Mary Ann Grossman, TwinCities.com