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Rookie pitcher Roy Tucker is full of hope for his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers-and hope might be what the team needs most Roy Tucker-a small-town kid from Tomkinsville, Connecticut-has quit his job at the drugstore and packed up for Dodgers training camp in Clearwater, Florida, hoping to make the team as a rookie pitcher. He expects the field to be competitive and realizes he might not pass muster, but after just one practice, he discovers just how difficult a goal he has set. But the Dodgers are an aging team, and owner Jack MacManus is getting tired of the smart remarks from sports reporters and the manager of the rival Giants, Bill Murphy. With a little coaching and encouragement from Dave Leonard, the oldest catcher in the big leagues, this kid from Tomkinsville might be just what the team needs.
Autoren-Porträt von John R. Tunis
John R. Tunis (1889-1975) was a novelist and sportswriter best remembered for his series of novels about the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s and '50s. Born in Boston, Tunis graduated from Harvard University and then served in the Army during World War I. He began writing sports columns in 1925 and was soon contributing to dozens of publications, including the New Yorker, Reader's Digest, Esquire, and the Saturday Evening Post. A tennis player himself, Tunis broadcast the first Wimbledon match to air in the United States in 1934.
Bibliographische Angaben
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Autor:
John R. Tunis
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Altersempfehlung: 12 - 16 Jahre
- 2011, 278 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
- ISBN-10: 1453221190
- ISBN-13: 9781453221198
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2011
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Dateiformat: ePub
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Größe: 0.30 MB
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Pressezitat
“[The] large cast of characters . . . find themselves caught in the unpredictable excitement of the game itself that the author so brilliantly realizes.” —School Library Journal
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