A young baseball phenom from the Dorchester section of Boston burst on the scene in the summer of 1946. Every team in the majors is vying to draft him. He signs with Tom Yawkey and the Red Sox and New England sports fans were euphoric. Big Joe is sent to their minor league team in Louisville to play and breaks every hitting and home run record. While there, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful nurse, who just returned from the war. A summer-long romance transpires. Joe is called up to play in the '46 World Series. Due to poor judgment Joe doesn't play. After the season's end, Joe marries the nurse, Anna. Christmas comes to Old Boston, and so does tragedy. The remainder is the search for a new life, and a beautiful tale of heartache and tears, love and redemption, Extra Kleenex time.