by Chris Earl (2009)
"Royal Cutter had finally cracked the starting lineup in the major leagues. As a 32-year-old rookie, Royal came with a long past in the minors, filled with bus rides and squashed dreams. Yet hours before his first game in right field, Royal is traded to Kansas City. The same city where 25 years before, Royal watched the demise of his own father, an up-and-coming major league baseball player. Drugs. Murder. A life sentence. Now Royal has to prove he belongs in the majors, even as the shadows of his father's darkest days surround his every move where he had once been a prince of the city."--Page 4 cover
Jim Bouton and Eliot Asinof
A story of game-fixing during National League playoffs. In his 38-year career as a baseball umpire Ernie Kolacka never once favored a team, but now he must, to repay a debt to a Korean War buddy in trouble with gamblers.
text by Glenn Stout
Takes an in-depth look at the first African-American to play Major League baseball, at his road to the majors and his Hall of Fame career, focusing on the color barrier that existed for him, and exposing a number of myths concerning Robinson's relationship with Branch Rickey.
texte, Roch Carrier
De passage à Sainte-Justine P.Q., Adéline frappe un circuit qui sidère les garçons de la place et brise la vitre du sergent Bouton. Tout s'explique, c'est une magicienne. Même si l'on ne retrouve pas tout à fait les qualités de ##Le chandail de hockey##, cet album n'en demeure pas moins un excellent ouvrage tant par le texte que l'illustration: les auteurs utilisent la même formule.
Marion Dane Bauer
Picked on at school by bullies, thirteen-year-old Michael confronts his fears during a trip to Colorado to see his father, who works as a whitewater rafting guide and whom Michael has not seen in eight years.