Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990

“The season’s best baseball book. Every real baseball fan should read this book.” — Sara Paretsky, USA Today

“The best baseball book of the season.” — Chicago Sun Times

“This is the real cloth from which Field of Dreams is the polyester version. A+” — Entertainment Weekly

“A knowledgeable, loving, fascinating portrait--which explodes in your hands in the last few pages in a stunning plot twist to a book you didn’t realize had a plot.” — San Diego Tribune

Prophet of the Sandlots was named one of the best books of 1990 by each of the above publications as well as by The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, Baseball America and the New York Public Library.

It was among the first books chosen for Barnes and Noble’s “Discover” series.