Title: The batboy
First published: 2010
Description: It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop-once the most popular player in baseball before he was banned for using steroids. Now he is making his comeback. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father.Mike Lupica, king of the sports novel, delivers his most powerful and kid-friendly to date.
Subjects: Detroit Tigers (Baseball team), Bat boys, Juvenile Fiction, Mothers and sons, Fiction, Mothers and sons in fiction, Baseball, Baseball in fiction, Bat boys in fiction, Baseball stories, Juvenile fiction, Sports, nyt:chapter-books=2010-03-28, New York Times bestseller, Children's fiction, Baseball, fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, Detroit (mich.), fiction
Places: Detroit (Mich.)
LC classification: PZ7.L97914 Bat 2010