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Michelson, Richard

Lipman Pike: America's First Home Run King

32 pp. | Sleeping Bear | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58536-465-7 $16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Zachary Pullen. In the mid-1800s, baseball in America was in its infancy when Lipman Pike, a Jewish boy from Brooklyn, began to play. Soon the boy's batting power and speed helped "Lip" become a sought-after homerun leader. The biographical story line is choppy at times; an appended author's note fills in some gaps. Caricaturish illustrations on sepia-colored pages capture the setting.
Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

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