This book consists--supposedly, I was never totally convinced--of visits which the author, a semi-well known novelist in his day, enjoyed with an "Old Timer" who had played major league baseball during the World War I period. The book is an easy, pleasant two-evening read, and can be recommended as such. As for the quality of the Old Timer's opinions, though, they struck me as mostly either banal (a good defensive team is strong up the middle) or annoyingly oblivious (he never heard a fan complain about games being too long--pal, I'm in the book). ( )