For anyone who has ever hit a baseball, or gone to sleep with the rise and fall of home runs in his mind, here at last is the book that unlocks the secret to baseball's hold over our hearts. Robert Mayer's hilarious and heartbreaking memoir of growing up baseball-obsessed chronicles another kind of ballplayer altogether. Mayer's star is the boy who was too skinny, too small, and otherwise too genetically unfit ever to become what he really wanted...