This is captured in the book for the discerning fan of the game, but others will miss this aspect of the characters and their struggles. However, the changes were tough on those who had been around the game for a long time because some of the unwritten rules of the game were changing as well.
Some of the changes have been good, even great, especially for the players and the money they can make. I think it began to change when free agency hit the scene. The book deals in a subtle way with the changing of the game of baseball over the years. I think everyone could find a great lesson in the book and for those who are baseball fans, it is a must read! It is an honest look at redemption and the consequences of our actions for generations to come. I will not give away the plot but the book is a good reminder of the fragility of our innocence and the fallen nature of all of us, even our greatest heroes. I was twelve that summer and because I loved baseball as much as the main character did, I knew all the names of the players Grisham mentions weaved in with the fictional account of Calico Joe. The thirty year flashback of the main character and narrator of the book take the reader back to the summer of 1973.
The fact that this story is set in the context of baseball in general and major league baseball in particular definitely helped me immediately buy in to the characters and the story. We lost the game by the way! So it was a really good thing that at least I had the pleasure of reading this book or the day would have not been as pleasant. I finished it by Wednesday night and most of it was finished on a trip to see our Gator softball team take on UCF a couple of hours away. It arrived on my ipad late on Tuesday afternoon. Calico Joe is the newest novel by my favorite fiction author John Grisham.
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