Marjorie Ingall reviews Joshua Berkowitz's memoir of coaching the Rashi Rams, his son's Jewish day school's baseball team:

“There’s a pace to baseball that lends itself to thoughtfulness,” said Joshua Berkowitz, author of the new book Third Base for Life: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons, and Baseball. “People who love baseball are able to sit back and observe; they’re not constantly looking for the next great action. Baseball is history and literature; football is more like a video game. There’s such beauty to the game, with the the field and the grass and the greens.”

She believes the book is especially instructive for today's control-obsessed parents: