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The Boy Who Saved Baseball
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The Boy Who Saved Baseball is a highly acclaimed middle grade novel by Southern California author John Ritter. Among other recognitions, the book received the 2004 Paterson Prize for Children’s Literature, the Child Magazine Best Book of the Year Award, and the New York Library Best Book for the Teen Age Award. Of his half-dozen middle grade sports novels, this story most closely mirrors Ritter’s upbringing. It is set in a small California town near the US-Mexico border, and Tom, the protagonist, is a daydreaming 12-year-old boy who loves baseball and wants to be a writer.
Tom’s idyllic country life is about to be upended as developers have convinced an aging doctor to sell them his family’s land, including a 100-year-old baseball field that will soon become a lake. Tom and his baseball teammates get to stage one baseball game against a superior team to save the ballfield and the entire community from redevelopment. Helping them in their struggle is a retired, reclusive baseball superhero, Dante Del Gato, and a mysterious addition to their team, Cruz de la Cruz, who rides into town on a white horse carrying a handmade bat.
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