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The Batboy

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4 out of 5
Based on 725 Ratings and 129 Reviews

Book Description
It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year- old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.

There is no winning back so... More
Book Information
PublisherPhilomel Books
BindingHardcover (5 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages276
ISBN-10039925000X
ISBN-13978-0399250002
Publication Date03/09/2010
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About Mike Lupica (Author) : Mike Lupica writes a nationally syndicated column for New York's The Daily News and is a regular on ESPN's The Sports Reporters. He lives in Connecticut.
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