The Grace of Shortstops

[nice clean copy with no significant wear to either book or jacket, just some extremely faint traces of some erased ink markings on the ffep; light remainder spray to bottom of text block]. Novel set in the Bronx (not in Brooklyn) in the spring of 1947, as "Jackie Robinson is about the break the color line and Brooklyn has a shot at the pennant" -- and an eight-year-old Jewish boy "dreams of making the major leagues as the next Dodger shortstop," but whose life and that of his family are soon to be disrupted by the kidnapping of an infant cousin. The boy "summons all the courage befitting a future Dodger shortstop and embarks on a search-and-rescue mission for the stolen baby." The jacket blurb describes the book as a "richly woven narrative about the secrets and sorrows of a Jewish immigrant family and of a youngster who finds in America's greatest sport the courage and grace with which to face real life."

Product Info

Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Year: 1984

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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