All of us have pain in our lives. For some, it is just a missing piece in an otherwise fulfilling life, while for a few it is the pain of a shattered life that left them only a shard of what could have been. Moonlight Graham was just missing a piece of his life. Shoeless Joe Jackson was missing all but a piece of his life, and it was baseball that completed them both.         Moonlight …showed first 75 words of 469 total…

…showed last 75 words of 469 total…on the field, all the pain and angst he experienced vanished like mist on a sunny day.         For these two people, and others in the book, baseball was not just a game; it was a metaphor for life itself. For Moonlight, baseball was a missing piece in the riddle we call life, while for Shoeless Joe, it was the breath of life. While the pain inside differed, for both men baseball that was the cure.