After a series of professional and personal misfortunes, a young Jewish man joins a Jewish professional baseball team at the height of the Depression. As the members of this motley crew travel West to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover that their nation is as confused as they are - torn between its fears of foreigners and poverty, and its belief in democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, it is a look at what it means to be an outsider in America