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.
Genre: Children's Fiction
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.
Genre: Children's Fiction
Used availability for Mike Lupica's The Batboy
Hardback Editions
February 2011 : USA Library Binding
March 2010 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
February 2011 : Paperback
Title: [(The Batboy )] [Author: Mike Lupica] [Feb-2011]
Author(s): Mike Lupica
Publisher: Puffin Books
Availability: Amazon UK
February 2011 : UK Paperback
January 2011 : USA Paperback
Title: The Batboy
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ISBN: 0-545-33365-2 / 978-0-545-33365-8 (USA edition)
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Availability: Amazon UK
Audio Editions
March 2010 : UK Audio CD
March 2010 : Canada Audio edition
Kindle Editions
November 2009 : USA, Canada Kindle edition