It's 1963 in suburban Minneapolis, when 7-year-old George (later
Wayne) Johnson meets Artie, who lets George fly his dog. Thus
begins a decade-long, on-and-off friendship and coming-of-age
odyssey that will shape both boys' futures and test their
character, loyalty, humor, and wits. This is not, however, the land
of June and Ward Cleaver, and we are drawn into a parallel world
unimagined by the boys' mainstream parents and peers, a world
sometimes hilarious (the "duel" between Artie's dog and a
casserole), sometimes nostalgic (balsa-wood model planes and
Playboy centerfolds), occasionally perilous, and often illegal
(setting off a stash of illicit fireworks deep inside the
Minneapolis Convention Center). On the surface there is
little-league and scouting, romance and school, hobbies and jobs.
But hidden from the adult world are the life-endangering stunts,
the relentless torment of a pathological bully leading George to
develop a series of home-made (and increasingly dangerous)
defensive weapons, and the fleeting moral disdain for marijuana
which soon gives way to an entrepreneurial and connoisseurial
obsession when the plant is found growing in abundance nearby. In
turns tender, humorous, hair-raising and heartwarming, Baseball
Diaries is a bitter-sweet and fascinating look at a pivotal time in
a young man's life and a magical time in America when baseball
seemed simple and pure.
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