And anyone who's played even an inning of Little League baseball knows that short's where the action is, the axis around which all other positions pivot.
Shortstops manage the stunt of being hard-working and glamorous at the same time.
Along the way, singer Dalton and the gang point out spots where some of the best pop music of the last 20 years was made. Several elegiac songs seem to bloom out of the mix then fade away, one song drifting demurely into another. Lyrically, Andrew Dalton translates the sweet frustrations of different desires. The character recalls playing baseball as a boy. There's a Southerner, a stranger, in the pickup game of his memory.