A career woman works at a newspaper and publishing company. She is unexpectedly assigned to another department in order to cover sports. She has to work the baseball beat. She knows little about the sport however. She attends a game one day where she meets a minor league baseball player who has a daughter and no wife. He used to be in the majors, but has not been the same since his accident. The man is pondering retirement. The reporter tries to cheer him up. They fall in love.