kpickens512 's review for:

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
4.0

There are a lot of comparisons made between this book and Gabe Habash's book Stephen Florida. In the first place, Stephen Florida is better written and edgier. This is a cuter story about a scrawny shortstop that wins a college baseball scholarship, and then starts getting recruited by the major leagues. There is quite a few humorous incidents in the story, but the plotline is confused when more and more characters keep getting thrown into the mix. It would have been a better tale if the author had just stuck with two or three main characters.