While the premise of the book was well-founded, I felt that there was too much description of the actual baseball game. Almost all of each chapter was devoted to an extremely detailed account of the game. These descriptions might be enjoyed by a avid baseball fan, but they seemed overdone, because each and every pitch was detailed. I didn't feel like enough attention was given to Sam's illness and the toll that it takes on his friends and him. The ideas behind this book would have worked much better, I believe, if there had been less time given to the game itself and more given to Sam's illness. I found the plot difficult to get involved with, because it was comprised almost entirely of game description and little of it was about Sam at all. Therefore, I would recommend this to extreme baseball fans who want a full game description, but not to people who want to see how cancer affects relationships.