John H. Ritter





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John H. Ritter

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October 31, 1951 in San Pedro, California, The United States

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Novelist John H. Ritter (born October 31, 1951, in San Pedro, California) grew up in the summer-dry hills east of San Diego. "I grew up in a baseball family," says John. "But we were also a family of musicians and mathematicians, house painters and poets. My dad was a sports writer in Ashtabula, Ohio, who moved the family out west, just before I was born, to become Sports Editor for The San Diego Union."

Growing up in a sparse, mountainous region also helped stretch John's imagination. "Out in that country," he says, "there was a real sense of the spirits who walked the land in the centuries before. And being so cut off from other kids, I roamed the hills a lot, following hawks and eagles, climbing boulders, sitting in Indian caves. Rattle...more


During the Obama campaign, in 2008, people began to say to each other, “We are the ones we've been waiting for.” Some people purposefully misconstrued that slogan in order to mock it, and many simply did not have the information to understand it. But it was the truth. And never was that saying more true than now.

The world, my friends, is changing. And we—so many of us—are doing the changing. It... read more »
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Average rating: 3.71 · 834 ratings · 153 reviews · 7 distinct works
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
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Choosing Up Sides
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Under the Baseball Moon
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Over the Wall
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Fenway Fever
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“...that's what a book should do. It should tie you up, it should work you up, make you think, make you see, make you feel extra happy and sorrowful, extra nervous and bold. It must be dream laden, scheme sodden, soul shaking. And it must do all of this as mysteriously as a left-handed curveball coming at your head, twisting and spinning and making you duck until, at the very end, it magically crosses home plate, with such grace and command that it humbles, crumbles, and amazes you.”
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