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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
New York baseball fans won't like this book at all. In Mosher's ninth novel (after The True Account), one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory, the Boston Red Sox beat the Yankees to win their division, then go on to whip the Mets to win the World Series. Eight-year-old Ethan "E.A." Allen lives in the rural Vermont village of Kingdom Common. Redheaded, fatherless and home-schooled, E.A. longs to do two things in life—play baseball for the Red Sox and find out who his father is. E.A. is raised on a run-down farm by his smart, cheerful mother, Gypsy Lee, who writes wacky country-and-western songs, and his grandmother, a mean old biddy who swears Bucky Dent's home run in 1978 put her in a wheelchair for life. One night a drifter called Teddy with a mysterious connection to the Allen family shows up at the farm, and soon he's giving E.A. tips on batting, fielding and baserunning. Nine years later and after countless adventures, E.A. is a hotshot pitcher. Aided by Teddy and Cajun Stan the Baseball Man, E.A. ends up pitching for the nearly deflated and defunct Red Sox. His big league adventures are a riotous string of baseball antics involving even more screwball characters like the Sox manager, Legendary Spence, whose talking macaw, Curse of the Bambino, sits on his shoulder in the dugout and torments him by saying, "New York Yankees, number one." This is a baseball fantasy, a warm and hilarious tale of dreams come true.
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From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–This well-written tale from an accomplished author contains many of his trademark elements. It is the story of a boy growing up in rural Vermont in a nontraditional family. Ethan Allen, whose greatest desire is to play major-league baseball, is being raised by his mother and grandmother; his father is long-gone. E.A. is something of a child of the town and encounters fascinating and often comic characters throughout his young years. The dividing line between the heroes and the villains is not those with authority and those without, but rather between those who abuse their power and those who do not. With the return of his father, a promising player in his own time, the boy begins to move toward his dream and the day when he plays at Fenway Park. The book is also about the Red Sox and the place that the team has in the hearts and souls of so many New Englanders, something that has appeal not only for fans, but for anyone who has had that sort of attachment to a team.–Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
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New York baseball fans won't like this book at all. In Mosher's ninth novel (after The True Account), one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory, the Boston Red Sox beat the Yankees to win their division, then go on to whip the Mets to win the World Series. Eight-year-old Ethan "E.A." Allen lives in the rural Vermont village of Kingdom Common. Redheaded, fatherless and home-schooled, E.A. longs to do two things in life—play baseball for the Red Sox and find out who his father is. E.A. is raised on a run-down farm by his smart, cheerful mother, Gypsy Lee, who writes wacky country-and-western songs, and his grandmother, a mean old biddy who swears Bucky Dent's home run in 1978 put her in a wheelchair for life. One night a drifter called Teddy with a mysterious connection to the Allen family shows up at the farm, and soon he's giving E.A. tips on batting, fielding and baserunning. Nine years later and after countless adventures, E.A. is a hotshot pitcher. Aided by Teddy and Cajun Stan the Baseball Man, E.A. ends up pitching for the nearly deflated and defunct Red Sox. His big league adventures are a riotous string of baseball antics involving even more screwball characters like the Sox manager, Legendary Spence, whose talking macaw, Curse of the Bambino, sits on his shoulder in the dugout and torments him by saying, "New York Yankees, number one." This is a baseball fantasy, a warm and hilarious tale of dreams come true.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–This well-written tale from an accomplished author contains many of his trademark elements. It is the story of a boy growing up in rural Vermont in a nontraditional family. Ethan Allen, whose greatest desire is to play major-league baseball, is being raised by his mother and grandmother; his father is long-gone. E.A. is something of a child of the town and encounters fascinating and often comic characters throughout his young years. The dividing line between the heroes and the villains is not those with authority and those without, but rather between those who abuse their power and those who do not. With the return of his father, a promising player in his own time, the boy begins to move toward his dream and the day when he plays at Fenway Park. The book is also about the Red Sox and the place that the team has in the hearts and souls of so many New Englanders, something that has appeal not only for fans, but for anyone who has had that sort of attachment to a team.–Ted Westervelt, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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