What causes writers to swing for the fences in lyricism when they write about baseball on windswept rural diamonds of long ago? This author of 30 books hits a grand slam in this small volume
subtitled, "The Story of Texas' Greatest All-Brothers Baseball Team." Carlton relates the account of an epic struggle in 1935 between the Deike brothers from Hye, Texas, a small village near
Stonewall, and their game against the Stanczak rothers from Waukegan, Illinois. In Stowers' imagery of the struggle between brothers, you can feel the bristle of wool uniforms and the scent
of dirt and grass.
