Title: King of the mound
Description: Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season. Includes historical notes.
Subjects: People with disabilities, Baseball, Poliomyelitis, History, African Americans, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Father-son relationship, Handicapped, Historical fiction, Baseball stories, Children's fiction, Baseball, fiction, People with disabilities, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, African americans, fiction, North dakota, fiction
Places: Bismarck (N.D.)
People: Satchel Paige (1906-1982)
Time periods: 20th century