Some Early Reviews of Pinch Hitting

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There is magic here, of a curious kind.  Morris Hoffman’s Pinch Hitting is a sweet and tuneful ode to the rich wonders of our national pastime, as it is sometimes played in our hearts and minds.  Hoffman’s wonderfully unlikely tale of Harold Fungo, ‘The Joltin’ Janitor,’ takes its place in the dugout alongside Bernard Malamud’s The Natural and Robert Coover’s The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. as a timeless baseball fable, shot through with wonder – a seeing-eye single of a novel that finds a hole in the infield and comes to rest safely and surely in the soft grass just beyond the second base bag.” 

– Daniel Paisner, author of A Single Happened Thing and co-author of Ron Darling’s The Complete Game

 "A book written with heart and a keen passion for the game, Pinch Hitting is continuing proof that baseball provides a perfect canvas for storytelling in a wide variety of styles. Morris Hoffman has devised an intriguing structure and two intertwining tales that will keep baseball fans captivated."  

- Mark Stevens, author of The Fireballer

Pinch Hitting is an ode to baseball, set in a world where ordinary decency prevails and written in prose as spare and poetic as the game. Thank you, Morris Hoffman, for making me see why baseball is the enduring American pastime: it brings out the best in us.

-Stephanie Kane, award winning novelist and author of True Crime Redux, Object Lessons, A Perfect Eye, Extreme Indifference, Seeds of Doubt, Quiet Time, and Blind Spot