Title: The desperado who stole baseball
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.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Orphans, Fiction, Baseball, History, Children's fiction, Baseball, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, California, fiction