Batter Up is autobiographical and an inspirational story portraying the lives of young boys as friends, all centered around the theme of their love of baseball. The setting is a small town in Pennsylvania in the late 1950's. The story represents a journey through baseball memories, mostly as a child and some as an adult, baseball card collecting, stickball, sandlot and little league play, and creating heroes from those on the big league diamond. The story culminates with a sketch of the demise of the author's boy-hood baseball hero.