The Crowd Sounds Happy A Story of Love, Madness, and Baseball (Paperback)

From the Publisher: The Crowd Sounds Happy is the story of a spirited boy's coming-of-age in troubled times, by the bestselling author of The Catcher Was a Spy. Growing up in a doomed hometown with a missing father and a single mother, Nicholas Dawidoff listened to baseball every night on his bedside radio, the professional ballplayers gradually becoming the men in his life. A portrait of a childhood shaped by a stoical, enterprising mother, a disturbed, dangerous father, the private world of baseball, and the awkwardness of first love, The Crowd Sounds Happy is a moving piece of personal history that transforms ordinary moments into literature.