The Boy Who Saved Baseball

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Summary: My Favorite Book of the Year!!
Review: An exciting book that I could read over and over again.
If you like sports, this is the book for you. It describes baseball, and thrills you to the last page. One can really picture what was happening in one's imagination, it felt as if I was playing the game right there in Dillontown.

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Summary: My Favorite Book of the Year!!
Review: I love this book! I've already read it three times and you have to to see all the cool stuff in it. I really like Cruz de la Cruz and Tom and Maria Flores. But del Gato is my hero because he is so honest and doesn't care what people say. This book is a mystery and a legend and you never see the ending coming-you think you do but you don't. That's why I read it all over again. My dad loved it, too.

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Summary: A Magical Book from a Writer's Writer!
Review: John H. Ritter is a writer's writer. The way he paints the western landscape and his careful building of a modern day Tall Tale (in the manner of Twain's "Jumping Frog..." story) speak to his brilliance, too rarely available in juvenile literature today.

But Ritter is also a storyteller's storyteller. In no way do his multiple story layers and seamless literary craftsmanship lose the young reader or baseball fan or the middle school language arts teacher (like me) or the fantasy book lover of any age.

In The Boy Who Saved Baseball, Ritter pays great homage to songwriter Bob Dylan, (thus the story's setting, Dillontown, and the wondeful "Blowin' in the Wind" ending) and to Latino writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (thus the magical 100-year-old ballpark, the Mexican-American setting, and the dip into magical realism in creating the myth of Dante Del Gato).

I highly recommend this funny, uplifting, and brilliant story to readers of all ages.

We need John Ritter's next novel NOW!!!

Rating:
Summary: A Magical Book from a Writer's Writer!
Review: John H. Ritter is a writer?s writer. The way he paints the western landscape and his careful building of a modern day Tall Tale (in the manner of Twain?s ?Jumping Frog?? story) speak to his brilliance, too rarely available in juvenile literature today.

But Ritter is also a storyteller?s storyteller. In no way do his multiple story layers and seamless literary craftsmanship lose the young reader or baseball fan or the middle school language arts teacher (like me) or the fantasy book lover of any age.

In The Boy Who Saved Baseball, Ritter pays great homage to songwriter Bob Dylan, (thus the story?s setting, Dillontown, and the wondeful ?Blowin? in the Wind? ending) and to Latino writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s One Hundred Years of Solitude (thus the magical 100-year-old ballpark, the Mexican-American setting, and the dip into magical realism in creating the myth of Dante Del Gato).

I highly recommend this funny, uplifting, and brilliant story to readers of all ages.

We need John Ritter's next novel NOW!!!

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Summary: how the boy saved baseball
Review: The boy who saved baseball

This book is about a kid named tom and he is at a game and he makes an awesome catch and the team likes him from then on. It is about modern day and the kid is about 13 or14 and he is the type of kid that is really shy and does not like to talk or any thing and wants to be all that he can. The only reason why I read was because it is about baseball. Baseball is an ok sport to play but not as good as others. I do though like this book because fighting for a place for a baseball field. The book in the end ended in a way because they had a deal if they the team did not win the last game the diamond would get bull dozed over and they would never play baseball again. But they did win the last game and the field did not gat bulldozed over and thy cheered a lot. Over all it wasn't a bad book for little kid.

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Summary: The Best Sport Book EVER!
Review: This Baseball thriller was one of the best books I have ever read. This book gives it all, sports, sports, and more sports. This book is for a true sports fan and any one else who likes some thrilling adventures and suspense to the very end. Well I hope this book gives you a great time reading it as it did to me.