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The Reviews USA Today: School Library
Journal: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Bowen's story is straightforward and realistic and readers will readily identify with his characters. Readers also will enjoy Bowen's ability to weave fact and fiction to create a novel that's based on baseball history. Karen MacPherson The Five Owls: This novel has many strong values to impart, including having respect for the wisdom and experience of elders, and that in the face of much skepticism and derision, personal integrity, not image, are what matter. Ages 9-12.
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T.J.'s
Secret Pitch The Story T.J. desperately wants to be a pitcher, but he's small and his pitches don't pack any power. Then he discovers a crazy pitch used by a real-life major leaguer in the 1940s. When he tries it out, his teammates laugh —until they try to hit it! But will T.J. get the chance to use it in a real game? The History In
the 1940s, Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher Rip Sewell confounded batters
with an off-beat lob pitch he called "The Eephus Pitch." Others
called it the blooper pitch or La Lob. Over the years, other pitchers
have used it. In fact, it was used against home-run slugger Mark
McGwire in 1998. McGwire didn't hit that one out of the park.
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