Free Baseball
By Sue Corbett
(Puffin, Paperback, 9780142410806, 160pp.)
Publication Date: January 31, 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Prebound
Categories: Social Issues - General, Sports & Recreation - Baseball
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Felix knows his dad was a famous baseball player in Cuba?and that his father risked everything to send Felix to America. But his mom won?t reveal anything else. When a baseball team with Cuban players comes to town, Felix wonders if they knew his dad and sneaks into their locker room to ask. That?s when the players mistake him for their new batboy. Determined to uncover the truth about his mysterious father, Felix plays along, going as far as running away from home to become the team?s batboy. His bittersweet adventure glows with the friendship of a miraculous dog, the warmth of a mother?s love, and the magic of baseball.
Sue Corbett is the daughter of Irish immigrants and grew up in a Long Island neighborhood very similar to the one depicted in 12 Again. Ms. Corbett has worked as a journalist for fifteen years in Missouri, South Carolina, Florida and, now, Virginia, where she lives with her husband and their three young children. As anyone who knows her will tell you, she really is half-Looney. However, she has only been twelve once. (So far.)
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