Love and Modesty: A Baseball Romance

Dan, a promising minor-league pitcher who has just been moved up to the next level, has ideas about romance that don't exactly dovetail with those of his marriage-bent girlfriend, Kay.

Dan's new catcher, Ned, whose wife happens to be Dan's loudest and most merciless heckler in the entire ballpark, offers precisely the type of sage and utterly practical advice that Dan and his ego are constitutionally incapable of following.

When Kay's impatience for a proposal becomes unbearable, she enlists an unwitting Ned in a plot designed to spur Dan on to the altar by igniting jealousy in a heart already ablaze with his passion for her. Rather than winning her a fiance, however, Kay's machinations propel Dan into the arms of Ned's wife, Ellen, a creative writer with a taste for chaos and nonsense both on the page and in the stadium seats and now, possibly, in her love life as well.

As Dan and Ellen shack up and form battle lines, Kay runs for comfort to the only other person she knows in this new town -- her former(?) future husband's mentor and now former(!) closest friend, and the man whose marriage she has just torpedoed.