The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H Ritter

The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H Ritter

Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims to know the secret of hitting. Not to mention the secrets of Dante Del Gato, Dillontown's greatest hitter ever. Since he walked away from the game years ago, Del Gato hasn't spoken a word to anyone. But now he might be Tom's only hope for saving his hometown. From the award-winning author of Over the Wall and Choosing Up Sides comes this imaginative tale of one boy's struggle to preserve the spirit of the game he loves.

John Ritter is a young adult author who has written a number of books and short tales. His first novel, Picking Up Sides, was named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and earned the International Reading Association Children's Book Award for Older Readers in 1999. No ordinary baseball book, this is a remarkable first novel, according to Kirkus Reviews, which praised Picking Up Sides for attacking the once-dominant views of religious extremists against left-handed youth. Ritter's third novel, The Boy Who Saved Baseball, won the Paterson Award for Literature for Young People in 2004.

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ISBN 13	9780142402863
ISBN 10	0142402869
Title	The Boy Who Saved Baseball
Author	John H Ritter
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2005-03-17
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2007, Short-listed for Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award (Grades 6-8) 2007
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.