num_pages: 160
description: Baseball legend Satchel Paige changes a boy's life in this coming-of-age tale from the author of Lucky.Nick was going to be a star baseball player no doubt about it. People for miles around talked about the twelve-year-old boy with the golden arm. And then Nick is diagnosed with polio - a life-threatening disease in the 1930s. Everyone is devastated especially Nick's father who copes by closing off from his son. When Nick finally leaves the hospital he wants nothing more than to get back in the game but he seems to be the only one who thinks it's possible. But after he begins working for Mr. Churchill the owner of a minor league team Nick meets Satchel Paige arguably the best player in baseball. Satchel faces obstacles of his own - his skin color prevents him from joining the major leagues - and he encourages Nick to overcome the odds and step out of the dugout.
language: English
title: King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige
publisher: Simon  Schuster Books for Young Readers