This could have been a good book of the author had stuck with one person until his story was finished and then gone on to the next one. But instead he kept jumping back and forth from player to player—most of whose stories were fairly similar—so it was almost impossible to track what was happening to whom or to care. In addition, because of the format, he kept going back over incidents, creating a lot of redundancy. And, he kept bringing in other people who weren't on his list of highlighted people, and taking off on their stories for a while, making it even harder to track what was happening to whom.

Basically, the whole point is that all these guys want to make it to the majors. Some of them do for a long time, some do just for a short visit, and some never do. And that was it.