In the Midst of Winter: A Tale of Hope

Something more than baseball was happening that day . . . On New Year's Day 1987, in a wind that howled cold as a wolf's breath, two dozen boys gathered on a small-town sandlot and played a baseball game for the ages. For the strange new boy named Theodore W. Messenger, it was an opportunity to teach his classmates the finer points of the game -- and something more.