The Batboy
Publisher: Penguin, February 22, 2011.
Edition: Reprint
Book Condition: New (Like New)
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780142417829
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team, and Million-Dollar Throw.
Brian is living every baseball kid's dream: he is a batboy for his hometown Major League team. Brian believes it's the perfect way to bring him and his big-leaguer dad closer. And if that weren't enough, this is the season that Hank Bishop, Brian's baseball hero, returns to the Tigers for the comeback of a lifetime. The summer couldn't get much better! Until Hank Bishop starts to show his true colors and Brian learns that sometimes life throws you a curveball.
Review
“A pennant winner.” –Kirkus Reviews
“Lupica... gives his readers a behind-the-scenes look at major league sports. In this novel, he adds genuine insights into family dynamics and the emotional state of his hero.” –Booklist
“[T]his novel will undoubtedly appeal to those who equate summer with baseball; it should also win over readers who appreciate finely crafted storytelling and engaging characters.” –School Library Journal
About the Author
He began his newspaper career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post at age 23. He became the youngest columnist ever at a New York paper when he joined the New York Daily News in 1977. For more than 30 years, Lupica has added magazines, novels, sports biographies, other non-fiction books on sports, and television to his professional resume. For the past fifteen years, he has been a TV anchor for ESPN’s The Sports Reporters. He also hosted his own program, The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2.
In 1987, Lupica launched “The Sporting Life” column in Esquire magazine. He has published articles in other magazines, including Sport, World Tennis, Tennis, Golf Digest, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, ESPN: The Magazine, Men’s Journal and Parade. He has received numerous honors, including the 2003 Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation.
Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells, collaborated with noted author and screenwriter William Goldman on Wait ‘Till Next Year, and wrote The Summer of ’98, Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and How We Get It Back, and Shooting From the Lip, a collection of columns. He has also written several novels, including Dead Air, Extra Credits, Limited Partner, Jump, Full Court Press, Red Zone, Too Far, and the national bestsellers Wild Pitch and Bump and Run. Dead Air was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Mystery and became a CBS television movie, “Money, Power, Murder,” to which Lupica contributed the teleplay. Over the years, he has been a regular on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America, and The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour. On the radio, he has made frequent appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s.
His previous young adult novels, Travel Team, Heat, Miracle on 49th Street, and the 2007 summer hit Summer Ball, have shot up the New York Times bestseller list. Lupica is also what he describes as a “serial Little League coach,” a youth basketball coach, and a soccer coach for his four children, three sons and a daughter. He and his family live in Connecticut.
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