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230 pp.
| Philomel |
May, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-24665-4$16.99
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4-6
Die-hard Red Sox fans might believe in Fenway's "high, holy gates" or that the ballpark is "the love of baseball itself...to all boys, all girls, all across the globe." But this overblown hyperbole sinks Ritter's story of the friendship between a struggling pitcher and a kid whose father owns a hotdog stand and their use of magical thinking to turn the team's season around.