The desperado who stole baseball
By: John H. Ritter.
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780399246647
Subjects: Billy, -- the Kid -- Fiction; Baseball -- History -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Fiction; California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.