One of the best sports stories I have read this year, but not the easiest to read.
Set in Southern California near the Mexican border where a poverty and ghetto mentality exists. Add two mixed race boys, Danny half white half Mexican, and Uno half black half Mexican, both mad about baseball and both confused about their own identities and future in life. Stir in girls, sexuality and survival on the streets and you have a high interest cocktail of a novel that will thrill those who choose to read it. The sporting competition and rivalry between the main characters and the pressures on those wanting to compete at the top level is one of the great themes of this story.
It is not easy at first to get used to the street talk that is laced with Spanish slang, but once you get used to it, there is a flow that tells a great teenage novel.
Aimed at high school students but particularly aimed at boys with a sport interest.
Reviewed by Bob
Published by Delacorte Press (2008) (an imprint of Random House)
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