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Phin has a big heart, but it’s also a heart that’s failing. Before he dies, he wants to spend more time with his wife, and he must prepare his nephew to run the family business, but his highest goal is to achieve one last sporting victory over longtime friend Morton Cunningham.

After a lifetime of one-upmanship, the vibrant economy of the 1920s allows these two successful businessmen to sponsor several unusual sporting events which far exceed normal standards of friendly competition. Their final battle is a contest for the last coveted slot in the Los Angeles Winter Ball League—Mort with his Major League pros and Phin with his Lakota nine. Yet through his newly formed friendship with a nearly blind Lakota elder, Phineas learns a new way to see life and another way to define victory. But is it in time and at what cost?