Mickey Mantle's Last Home Run Baseball Card - Rare Collectible Sports Memorabilia for MLB Fans - Perfect for Display, Gifts, and Sports Collections

Teenagers in a New Jersey high school navigate the racial and political upheaval of 1968 through the nostalgic lens of baseball. Best friends TJ, who is white, and Jonathan, who is black, speak to each other about their differences in a way that is refreshingly honest and which ultimately bonds them through the tense times triggered by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. Author Falco is obviously a fan of the minutia of baseball as it is draped over much of the narrative in his descriptions of the characters' exploits on the little league field. This provided a frequent distraction from the more interesting parts of the story as described above, thus four stars vs. five. In the end, the story about lasting friendship is worth the read.