The Art of Fielding (2011)

A college baseball programme gives talent a route into a different future, while the people supporting that talent must decide what to do with their own lives. Harbach links the team to the president’s office and to the intimate obligations a small institution creates. The attraction is the network of dependence around an apparently individual achievement. A substantial, emotionally open choice, with a troubling imbalance of power in an adult-student relationship.