Beginning in 1946, a then eight-year-old George Higgins, accompanied by father and grandfather, began taking the lengthy train trip out to Fenway Recreation area to find some truth in immortals want Doerr, DiMaggio, York, and Williams, and later on, Yastremski, Marty Barrett, and many more. This is a publication about baseball and about the Boston Crimson Sox; but that is only area of the story. Beyond the video games, the publication turns on thoughts about family and continuity and, obviously, the progress of the times of year. There’s a marvelous instant when Higgins phone calls on his own mythic Emily to check the all-time lineup with his deceased forebears. By then, you’ve come to know what the author’s values have in common with those inside our Town, and why specific professional athletes accomplish immortality yet others don’t. The Improvement of the Seasons confirms what admirers of the author’s dazzling accurate prose know: Higgins can be to writing what Ted Williams was to football, an all-star.