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The desperado who stole baseball

by John H. Ritter

Frontier and pioneer lifeOrphansFictionBaseballHistoryChildren's fictionBaseball, fictionOrphans, fiction

In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.

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Book data: Open Library