How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball - Softcover

Shannon, David

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Synopsis

Mean, greedy Boss Swaggert outlaws the game of baseball, playing fields are bulldozed, players are imprisoned, and spring disappears; but in the midst of the new, constant winter, a small boy named Georgie Radbourn challenges Swaggert to a game, and wins. Reprint.

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About the Author

DAVID SHANNON is the internationally acclaimed creator of more than twenty picture books, including the Caldecott Honor Book No, David! David Shannon and his family live in Southern California.

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Boss, a former baseball star so embittered by a run of bad luck that he vows to outlaw baseball forever, sends America into a literal perpetual winter until young Georgie Radbourn beats him in a winner-take-all contest. Ages 4-up. (Apr.)
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