Title: The pitcher
Description: Ricky's mom tries to help him practice, but Ricky won't make the high-school team unless his neighbor, a washed-up 1978 World Series pitcher, agrees to coach him. The plot contains profanity and violence.
Subjects: Pitchers (Baseball), Baseball stories, Mother and child, Fiction, Dreams, Coming of age, Bullies, High schools, Dyslexia, Alcoholics, Neighbors, Friendship, Family life, Mexican Americans, Mother-child relationship, Baseball, Fiction, sports, Mother and child, fiction