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The Streak

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A baseball player is some athlete dumb enough to stand there and let some other player aim very hard and unyielding horsehide projectiles in the vicinity of his body at 100 miles per hour.

Chastain's Dorsey McWhorter stays in that character as he stumbles and fumbles his way into your heart and into your days until, when the book ends and as in real life nearly everything is still unresolved, you find that you are going to miss Dorsey and miss your sessions with this wonderful book.

It's not great literature, and it's not the kind of language you want your pre-puberty teens to be spouting about the house, but it is well crafted and well-written, and you find yourself pulling for Dorsey even as you recognize him as a selfish and utterly stupid lout. I guess it's his good heart and his childlike approach to both baseball and life that affects you.

Whatever it is, like McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, The Streak is a book that I hated to see end, because it was pure enjoyment of the reading experience from start to finish, and I will miss it until enough time has passed to go back and read it again.