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.
year: 2012, 2013
call number/section: 1000
subjects: paige, satchel, 1906-1982, juvenile fiction, fiction, baseball, juvenile fiction, people with disabilities, fathers and sons, african americans, poliomyelitis, bismarck (n.d.), history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, fiction, historical fiction, baseball stories, historical fiction
Editions
Tooke, Wes
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2012)
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.
Schools: 23
Tooke, Wes
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2013)
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.
Schools: 1