Story of a man (pot smoking NY Yankees peanut vendor) and his father (former adman with terminal lung cancer) in 1978. The father (born in 1918) is a Red Sox fan and has healthy "good days" when they win, less when they lose, so the son concocts a scheme to hide Sox losses from his dad. Behind this sitcom farce is a story of a son getting to know his father and himself, from life to love. The ending (and the title) come with tickets to the one game playoff in Boston and rest on a light hitting Yankees short stop.

The author's style is some of what we have seen on TV, a mile-a-minute reference filled internal dialogue, and for the main character this is strongest under the influence of weed. Nearly all told in first person, the two times the perspective shifts are jarring. Partway through I switched to the audio book (read by the author) and was impressed, but not enough to rate 5 stars.