THE PROGRESS OF THE SEASONS

In this affecting memoir, with prose as sharp as a line-drive single, Higgins shows how his love of baseball is matched only by his love of his father and grandfather, men who introduced him to the game forty years earlier. Ian Esmo reads with care, maintaining a steady pace even when baseball stats intrude on the narrative. However, his voice lacks warmth, which would have added to Higgins’s touching story. P.B.J. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 98]