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Print Material

Author

Ritter, John H., 1951-

Title The desperado who stole baseball / John H. Ritter.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Philomel Books, c2009.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Meadowlark Fiction	F RIT	---	Available
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Fiction	J Ritter	---	Available

Description	260 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader ATOS RL 4.7 9.0 128925 LARK
Source	NBK 5/9 PPLY
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection
Audience	2-6.
Note	Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.
Summary	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.
Subject	Baseball -- History -- Fiction.
	Billy, the Kid -- Fiction.
	Orphans -- Fiction.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Fiction.
	California -- History -- 1850-1950 -- Fiction.
Added Author	Ritter, John H., 1951- Boy who saved baseball.
Added Title	Boy who saved baseball.
ISBN	9780399246647 (hardcover)