This book educated me not only about the life of Glenn Burke but about baseball and political movements related to gay rights. My only complaint is sometimes the back and forth with storylines seemed to leave gaps and didn't always mesh well.

Somehow I knew that Glenn Burke invented the high-five, but I didn’t know anything else about his life. I was surprised to read that he was the first openly gay Major League Baseball player, but unfortunately the struggles and challenges in his life were not unexpected given the time period in which he lived. This was a fascinating and well written biography, and Burke’s story is an important one to tell.

I'm not a huge fan of sports biographies, but this sounded incredibly interesting and I am a huge Dodgers fan. Andrew Maraniss really understands narrative nonfiction and this book just flowed off the pages. This is an incredibly interesting story and one that I doubt many people have ever heard of. First there is the fact that he "invented" the high five. But more importantly, he was gay in a time when it was really difficult to be gay and nearly impossible to be gay and in sports. This is a very niche biography though and I fear that it will not get read as much as it should, but it was very well written and compelling.