Ebook: Good Enough to Dream

Intro; Good Enough to Dream; Copyright; The Nine-year-old Right Fielder; The Pursuit of the Quarry; Diamond in the Rough; The Utica Olympians; Dog-Day Nights; Pennant Race; Denouement; Afterword: Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On; Acknowledgments; Connect with Diversion Books.;Roger Kahn's first major league hit, THE BOYS OF SUMMER, was his runaway bestseller that immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Now Kahn does the same for players whose moment in the sun has not yet arrived. GOOD ENOUGH TO DREAM is the story of Kahn's year as owner of the Class A, very minor league, Utica Blue Sox. Most of the Blue Sox never made it to the majors, but they all shared the dream that links the small child in the sandlot with the superstar who has just smacked one out of the stadium. This is a look at baseball unadorned, a game still sweet enough to lure grown men to leagues where first-class transportation was an old school bus and the infield was likely to be the consistency of thick soup. It is a funny and poignant story of one season, and one special team, that will make us hesitate before we ever call anything "bush league" again.