Brittle Innings

For seventeen-year-old Danny Boles, a 5'' 5" shortstop out of Tenkiller, Oklahoma, the summer of 1943 would be a season to remember. The country''s at war, and professional baseball needs able-bodied men. Danny''s headed for Highbridge, Georgia - home of the Goober Pride peanut butter factory and the Highbridge Hellbenders, a Class C farm club in the Chattahoochee Valley League. He''s a scrappy...