Junior Library Guild Selects The Pitcher
Junior Library Guild Selects William Hazelgrove’s “The Pitcher”
VIRGINIA BEACH — The Junior Library Guild has announced the selection of William Hazelgrove’s The Pitcher to its young adult recommended reading list. The JLG works with thousands of libraries and schools across the United States to bring them high-quality, award-winning titles.
The story is about a teenage Latino high school kid. Ricky Hernandez is a pitcher. He has an arm like a rocket and dreams of making the high school baseball team. His dying mother enlists the broken down World Series pitcher who lives across the street to coach Ricky. He shows Ricky how to achieve his dreams and break through the hell of organized kid sports.
The book releases in September in print and ebook.
9781938467592
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“I never knew I had an arm until this guy called out, “Hey you want to try and get a ball in the hole, sonny?” I was only nine, but mom said, “come on, let’s play.” This Carney guy with no teeth and a fuming cigarette hands me five blue rubber balls and says if I throw three in the hole we win a prize. He’s grinning, because he took mom’s five bucks and figures a sucker is born every minute. That really got me, because we didn’t have any money after Fernando took off, and he only comes back to beat up mom and steal our money. So I really wanted to get mom back something, you know, for her five bucks.”
A boy with a golden arm but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the elements of The Pitcher. A story of a man at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make his high school baseball team. You will laugh and you will cry as The Pitcher and Ricky prepare for the ultimate try out of life.
The Pitcher
VIRGINIA BEACH — The Junior Library Guild has announced the selection of William Hazelgrove’s The Pitcher to its young adult recommended reading list. The JLG works with thousands of libraries and schools across the United States to bring them high-quality, award-winning titles.
The story is about a teenage Latino high school kid. Ricky Hernandez is a pitcher. He has an arm like a rocket and dreams of making the high school baseball team. His dying mother enlists the broken down World Series pitcher who lives across the street to coach Ricky. He shows Ricky how to achieve his dreams and break through the hell of organized kid sports.
The book releases in September in print and ebook.
9781938467592
DESCRIPTION
“I never knew I had an arm until this guy called out, “Hey you want to try and get a ball in the hole, sonny?” I was only nine, but mom said, “come on, let’s play.” This Carney guy with no teeth and a fuming cigarette hands me five blue rubber balls and says if I throw three in the hole we win a prize. He’s grinning, because he took mom’s five bucks and figures a sucker is born every minute. That really got me, because we didn’t have any money after Fernando took off, and he only comes back to beat up mom and steal our money. So I really wanted to get mom back something, you know, for her five bucks.”
A boy with a golden arm but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the elements of The Pitcher. A story of a man at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make his high school baseball team. You will laugh and you will cry as The Pitcher and Ricky prepare for the ultimate try out of life.
The Pitcher
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