On the Field With...Alex Rodriguez (Matt Christopher Sports Biographies)
Publisher: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Published: April 2002
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780606246439
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage; Biography & Autobiography - Ethnic; Biography & Autobiography - Sports & Recreation; Juvenile Nonfiction; Sports & Recreation - Baseball; Children's 9-12 - Biography / Autobiography; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
First sentence: One summer day in the Dominican Republic, a small island country in the Caribbean, a group of young boys were playing baseball at the local monte, the Spanish word for "park".