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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season. Includes historical notes.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Louis, who loves baseball despite being the worst stickball player in White Plains, New York, sees his opportunity to be bat boy for the 1961 Yankees team as the perfect way to escape the problems of his father's remarriage and moving to the suburbs.
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