The ferisher baseball lay warm and almost animate, a living thing, in his fingers, he recalled Peavine’s words: “A baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.”

Or a November evening.

For the Rangers, World Series Champions.

Chabon, Michael. Summerland: A Novel. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002. (pp332)