The extraordinary, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron-a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston-and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over.
Cam Perron wasn't the only kid at his suburban Boston middle school in the early 2000s who loved baseball, but he was the only one who asked for stamps and piles of envelopes for Christmas so that he could write letters to players. He requested signatures from Major League superstars, and almost never heard back. Then, a set of Topps baseball cards including several players from the Negro League caught his eye. It was the first time many of those players had ever been featured on a trading card.

Cam started researching the Negro Leagues and directing his letters to former Negro League...