Stealing Home

The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing the other to accomplish nothing. In 150 years of baseball, there have only been 23. Perfect is nearly impossible. As a divorced dad, Ron was trying to redeem his fatherhood on a baseball road trip with his Little League son Nicky. Their odyssey of nine games in eleven days, crossing eight states in a rented convertible, was supposed to repair Ron's life as an unsure father. One sign of...
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The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing the other to accomplish nothing. In 150 years of baseball, there have only been 23. Perfect is nearly impossible. As a divorced dad, Ron was trying to redeem his fatherhood on a baseball road trip with his Little League son Nicky. Their odyssey of nine games in eleven days, crossing eight states in a rented convertible, was supposed to repair Ron's life as an unsure father. One sign of salvation came unbidden in an unscheduled tenth game. The adventures of the road, with a dad flying solo and trying to keep his boy safe and have fun, led to a deeper reckoning of how Ron's father failed enough to take his own life. The thousands of miles and dozens of innings delivered a discovery-a drive toward perfect fatherhood has a destination that cannot be found on any map. It might emerge at any time, though.