Catchers

Countless young ballplayers have struggled and failed to reach the rarified heights of major-league baseball. This is not their story. Catchers is the singular story of a young ballplayer's persistent struggle to escape his destiny of catching in the big leagues. From his earliest recollections, Michael Cironi is trained to catch by his imposing father and grandfather, both of whom failed to ascend from the minor leagues. But it is the movies Michael watches and the plays he reads that capture his passion and imagination. Despite Michael's tireless efforts to abandon baseball to pursue a life in the theater, a devilish force in the name of Fate, his meddling father, and his eccentric grandfather relentlessly conspire to keep him in the game. In Michael, we find an unlikely hero who battles fate and family to achieve his dream, and perhaps glimpse our own struggle with destiny in this quirky tale about life, hope, baseball, theater, fatalism, and free will.