Danny may look White, but he's half Mexican because of his father. His mother is blonde and has blue eyes. Every summer, he comes down to spend some time with his cousins in San Diego. Danny loves baseball, and throws a mean fastball consistently at 95 miles an hour. At his private school he is pretty quiet. He hopes to make the varsity baseball squad, but his half-Mexican status is all people see and judge him by.
For his cousins and the people who live in the neighborhood, Danny is White, and it's even more obvious he's not one of them when they realize he can't speak Spanish. These two halves are often in conflict with each other, and Danny is sure that him being part White is what chased his father away back to Mexico when he left without saying goodbye.
At his cousin Sofia's house, he meets Uno, a baseball fanatic. The two of them start on the wrong foot but quickly develop a relationship that turns into friendship as Uno helps Danny work through his anger and his issues while developing his baseball skills even further. Uno, for his part, has a difficult family life and would like to go live with his father away from the neighborhood. Uno and Danny, over the course of the summer, will learn to accept that your parents don't make the person you are today, that they are in control of who they become.
Fans of sports stories will appreciate Danny's struggles with his identity and his use of baseball to escape and eventually learn more about himself and his family.
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