The batboy
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The batboy
Resource Information
The work The batboy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- The batboy
- Statement of responsibility
- Mike Lupica
- Subject
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- Baseball -- Fiction
- Baseball stories
- Baseball stories
- Bat boys
- Bat boys -- Fiction
- Bat boys -- Juvenile fiction
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
- Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)
- Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
- Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
- Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Baseball -- Fiction
- Mother-son relationship -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
- Mères et fils -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Préposés aux bâtons -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse
- Sports fiction
- Sports fiction
- Michigan -- Detroit
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player in baseball before he was banned for using steroids. Now he is making his comeback. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father. Mike Lupica, king of the sports novel, delivers his most powerful and kid-friendly to date
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- juvenile
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