The Desperado Who Stole Baseball, John H. Ritter
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball, John H. Ritter
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The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

Author: John H. Ritter

Narrator: Robert Ramirez

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/14/2009

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

In this ALA Jr. Literary Guild selection by John H. Ritter, a rough-and-tumble band of batsmen from a California boomtown insist they're the country's best baseball team. To back up their boast, they make a wager with the 1881 champion Chicago White Stockings. Into this high-stakes climate rides 12-year-old baseball virtuoso Jack Dillon with his newfound friend, Billy the Kid. This sets the stage for a fun-filled, rip-roaring baseball shootout. "The Desperado Who Stole Baseball has it all-rich baseball lore, a rollicking Western adventure, and storytelling gold. A terrific book."-Mike Lupica, author

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brody on September 20, 2016

This book is about a 12 year old kid named jack who's parents and brother have died .ON his way out to meet his uncle he meet the biggest, baddest outlaw ever and they become friend and go to try to find jack's uncle the player-manager of the Dillowtown nine a baseball team. The team is going to pla......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 04, 2017

This baseball novel is designed for YA readers. The main character Jack is 12 years old and an orphan. The author offers a few true facts but the part about Billy the Kid is fiction. The novel takes place in Dillontown, California, which is home town to one of the best baseball teams west of the Mis......more

Goodreads review by Daisy_walden on October 25, 2017

Baseball and the wild west...thought that was a good combination so I read it. It was a little immature for me. Some fun parts, and good characters.......more

Goodreads review by Eshan on November 13, 2012

The desperado who stole baseball is a not as good of a book as I thought it was but I still decided to read it through and do a book report. I don't really recommend it and gets boring at times where the author loses me sometimes. Moving on, The Desperado Who Stole Baseball was about where a band of......more

Goodreads review by Kay on October 02, 2012

First there was The Boy Who Saved Baseball, where the future of an entire town depended on the outcome of a single baseball game. Now there is the history of that town, where a baseball game determined not only the future of the town, but the future of baseball itself in The Desperado Who Saved Base......more