The Boy Who Saved Baseball

by John H. Ritter

What reviewers are saying about The Boy Who Saved Baseball:

• "Enthralling...at times stunning...a book filled with memorable moments."
         --Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, May 19, 2003 (Full Review)
   
• "Developing both cast and multiple plotlines in suitably 'wild and woolbacious' prose, Ritter dishes up another stellar read..."
         --Starred Review, Booklist, John Peters, American Library Association (Full Review)
   
• "The Boy Who Saved Baseball...is my favorite new book of the year."
         --Miami Herald, Sue Corbett, Book Editor (Review)
   
• "Cheerfully upends the conventions of children's sports novels.... Fun and funny, full of surprises and baseball lore."
         --BookPage, July 2003, James Neal Webb (Full Review)
   
• "Throw in some physics, ecology, astronomy, and extraordinary, eccentric characters and this fast-paced, sweet-natured tale is more than a baseball story...for more than just fans."
         --Kirkus Reviews
   
• "Readers will cheer this endearing new novel. John H. Ritter...delivers perfect pitches through each of 216 pages.... This book, like the best games, is a joy to experience."
         --The ALAN Review, Dr. Pamela Sissi Carroll, Professor of English Education, Florida State University; Editor, The ALAN Review (Full Review)
   
• "A down home story with all the stuff of legend--a stranger riding into town, a former hero and shadowy recluse with a secret, a grim prophecy--all served up with a substantial helping of life truths. Here is Dillontown, where a laptop slides neatly into a saddlebag, and Cruz de la Cruz, a cyber-vato desperado, not only saves el civismo, the very spirit of the town, he saves the holy game of baseball as well. Within the network of cyberspace, environmental and development issues, gender equality, cross-cultural and cross-age friendships, issues of moral choice and human understanding, The Boy Who Saved Baseball zings!"
         --Susan Vreeland, Author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue
   

The Boy Who Saved Baseball will make you believe in the power of dreams!

Desperately trying to save their legendary ballpark, Tom, the thinker, Cruz, the mysterious cyber-vato, and the brash all-star, Marķa, spur the rest of the Dillontown Nine plus a crazy ex-pro, Dante Del Gato, to face the challenge of a lifetime. What's at stake? Only the very future of the town, the team, and the holy game of baseball.

A rollicking and high-spirited story about a shy boy's quest to preserve his slice of the American landscape before it's too late, The Boy Who Saved Baseball will make you believe in the power of dreams.

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