Making It Home

Praise

“A MUST READ!” — USA Today

“It’s a perfect book for fans of baseball, and also wonderful for those who aren’t.” — Good Housekeeping

“Baseball has always been a way for people to come together.  In Making It Home Teresa and her father used baseball to come together and work through some of the most difficult circumstances we can imagine. This is a story about a team that becomes a family and a family that becomes a team. It is a wonderful book that powerfully captures how we work through life’s challenges with baseball as a backdrop.” – Cal Ripken, Jr.

“[D]elightful. . .excellent, beautiful. . . .You’re gonna love this book.” — Mike Rowe, bestselling author, podcaster, host of Dirty Jobs

“Strasser knocks it out of the park,”— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Moving, funny, sad, hopeful, it will strike a chord with anyone who is grieving, anyone with a child playing sports, anyone who has ever obsessed over something as a means of coping — pretty much everyone, really.” —The Arizona Republic


“Strasser writes in a voice that seems as if she’s telling you the story right next to you; a story about swings and misses, errors and strikeouts and growing up… and that’s just in the bleachers. It is ultimately a reminder that being on a team – on the field or at home – especially through the hard times, makes life better; the wins sweeter and the losses softer. That is the magic of baseball. That is the magic of this book.”–David Mickey Evans, writer/director of Sandlot

“A complex and beautiful ride through grief, baseball, being a daughter and being a mother…. Teresa has the ability to lift you up, make you laugh and rip your heart out within the same paragraph. Making it Home is about so much more than grief and baseball, it’s also about love, parenting, acceptance and the power of forgiveness. It’s like reading great art –it’s gripping, poetic, powerful, magical, at times funny and at times heartbreaking. I feel forever changed having experienced it.”– New York Times bestselling author Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
 
“I loved this book. It is certainly not about any specific stages of grief; nor is it prescriptions for ‘getting over it.’ This is a story about learning to lose with patience and self-compassion — in baseball and in life.” — Dr. Drew Pinsky, physician and New York Times bestselling author
 
“We know baseball and the movies have had a long love affair. This story taught me that baseball and grief are having a relationship of their own. This memoir — a tale of a broken and glued-together American family — has the thrilling peaks and crushing valleys of the seventh game of a World Series. And with every page, you can see the movie unfold in your imagination. It’ll be a good picture, too, though you’ll always tell your friends, “‘Sure, but the book was better.’” —Ben Mankiewicz, Turner Classic Movies
 
“As a sports parent, I know the power of the connection sports can bring (and the agony of twelve-hour volleyball tournaments farther away than any outlet mall you’ve ever been to). Teresa captures this beautifully. This book may be about Little League, but Teresa is a Major League talent.” —Adam Carolla, New York Times Bestselling author and podcaster
 
“A beautifully crafted story that, I promise you, you have not read anywhere before. Is it heartbreaking? Yes. Will it cause you to tear up? Possibly. But at the same time, it’s undeniably funny, a bit scurrilous, disrespectful, and outrageous. Did I mention funny? “ — Cable Neuhaus, Columnist, Saturday Evening Post

“A beautiful poignant tale of sport helping overcome grief. I suffered a pretty tough loss this year and this book was both difficult to read and immensely uplifting as I mourned and remembered.” — All Sports Book Reviews, Favorite Books of 2023  

“Peppered with humor and searing insights!” –Metropolitan Magazine