She hasn’t found the right man yet, but she is madly in love with a sport. Maggie Bandini is thirty-five, a failed marriage behind her, two adorable children, little money in her pocket and one passion: baseball, which she has followed since she was a child and she thinks she knows better than anyone.
Until the day a billionaire uncle dies, leaving her the New York Cannons, her favorite team, full of overpaid players, unable to win for too long: then she has to prove herself as she never did and become even the head coach to revive the fortunes of the club.
Between champions who don’t like being led by a woman, an envious cousin who plots to put her in a bad light and the journalist Henry Franks who courts her, it’s not clear whether for love or to get a scoop, only a “perfect match” can fulfill Maggie’s dreams, on and off the pitch.
A romantic comedy between the Bronx and Coney Island, passing through the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge, a celebration of the toughest city in America and of the game considered a cross between chess and foil, to discover that in baseball, as sometimes in life, can change everything at the last minute.
Enrico Franceschini, journalist and writer, lives in London, has been traveling the world for forty years and is the author of over twenty fiction and non-fiction books, including the recent Ferragosto and In Los Angeles with Bukowski. For 66thand2nd he published in 2017 Win the Worst.
