Long Gone: 2

A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseballâthe class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel.ââNewsweek. "A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.ââSports Illustrated. "So good, so true, so funny...ââNew York Times Book Review.