The King's Game - Tapa blanda

?It's a strange book because it is entirely told in intense, pitch-by-pitch fashion. You feel you are on the mound for the duration of the dramatic story with all kinds of flashbacks and ? for a baseball book ? tons of emotion. Built on a nine-inning narrative structure, The King's Game is a well-crafted, baseball-savvy investigation of what happens in the heart of a human being. Like most great baseball books, this one is ultimately about fathers and sons. The issue of fatherhood is always rumbling like distant thunder in the background of this story. I found The King's Game thrilling, both as baseball writing, and as a thoughtful description of the way things ought to be, in the world's only perfect game.? -- Michael Finley "author of Take Me Out To The Ballgame"

A story of fathers, sons and baseball, along with the eternal choice every man must one day face ... The crowd of 45,000 rises as one, chanting his name. Veteran pitcher Cody King takes the mound for Game Seven of the World Series, unaware these nine innings will mark the end of his troubled existence. With each pressure-packed pitch, King confronts a past - from being abandoned by his teenage mother to keeping his wife's love from fading away - filled with tragedy and talent. And before he flings his final fastball into the cool autumn air, King, a fatherless son who grew up to become one of the game's greatest pitchers, will have to face the one true father he's never known.