Tom's world was as small as his backyard with its tall chain-link fence, but it was as large as a boy's imagination. Blind since birth, this eleven-year-old boy would listen to the sounds of the world beyond his reach. In his mind's eye he became a ballplayer for the Boston Red Sox, a sidekick to the Lone Ranger, but the fence would remind him that his dreams and schemes of adventure would never come to pass. Until he decided to break out and experience the world. Tom Sullivan recounts with wicked wit and captivating clarity the hair-raising adventures of his eleventh year in 1950s New England...escaping from his blind school, relief pitching in the neighborhood league, and boxing in a backyard bout with the neighborhood bully.
