The legend of Mickey Tussler
By: Frank Nappi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780312381097
Subjects: Autistic youth -- Fiction; Baseball players -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Seventeen-year-old Mickey Tussler is recruited to play for a minor league affiliate of the Boston Braves in the 1940s. Arthur Murphy, a scout and coach for the minor league Milwaukee Brewers, swears that Mickey is a phenom, one who has the greatest arm Murph has ever seen, that anybody has ever seen and it might be true. But Mickey is also autistic before autism was given a name and his condition keeps him sealed off from a world he scarcely understands."--Dustjacket.