" I liked this book - it's baseball, which I adore, and 1920s New York, which is just fun. I'm not normally a fan of books where everything goes wrong for the character, though. That's part of where the comparisons to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn felt wrong to me - Francie has a hard life, but there's beauty and wonder, too. You feel both more keenly because you have the balance. Here, it's just bad after bad after bad, and it's numbing. Ruby was a strong character whom I admired, and the real characters worked into the story mostly worked very very well. Definitely an interesting story. "
— Shelley, 1/14/2014