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

People: Satchel Paige (1906-1982)

Places: Bismarck (N.D.)

Times: 20th century