"Beginning with the exquisite charm of listening in on Bowering as a youthful sports reporter in his home town of Oliver in 1948, "the greatest year in human history," moving through the brash hubris of his career as a star player-reporter in the Kosmic League of the 1970s, to staring down the bittersweet foul line of the Twilight League of the twenty-first century, Baseball Love is a book about Bowering's life in love and the game, played with a consummate craft and skill into the paradise of what we can only ever imagine to be real, and leavened at all times by the conscious and ironic chatter of the infield."--Jacket.