Not many people west of the Great Lakes had baseball on their mind during the long winter of '49 -- '50. Fewer still were concerned with fastball. But the twenty-eight farm kids attending Heidelberg, the last remaining one-room school in the district, were positively possessed with the game. Faced with losing their school, the hayseeds had a point to prove to the town people and their dodgy team, the Wexford Wizards. Armed with two weather-checked...