"[A] wildly entertaining yarn...
The story lopes along on the strength of its delightful and articulately brusque dialogue and Jack's far-fetched innovations (his 'convolutionary secrets' include the hit-and-run and suicide squeeze plays)...A good child's-eye introduction to baseball's segregated past." —Booklist
"The Desperado Who Stole Baseball has it all—rich baseball lore, a rollicking Western adventure, and storytelling gold.
A terrific book." —Mike Lupica,
author of Heat and The Big Field
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A 2009 Junior Library Guild
selection
A 2010 Booklist "Top 10 Sports Books for Youth" selection |
In the very big inning...
The gruff-and-tumble founders of Dillontown, California, were a scrappy bunch. From fistfighting misfits and cattle rustlers to gold-digging drunkards and cardsharp
hustlers. And that's just the women.
The men were all that, plus they smelled bad.
(excerpt from The Desperado Who Stole Baseball) |
