STRANGER ON THE BALL CLUB

by Alfred Slote ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 21, 1970

Tim Foster can pitch a swell game of ball when Iris temper's not getting the better of him, but he also can tell a suspenseful sports story with guts. From his style he seems older than ten or eleven (in fifth-grade in Michigan): ""I looked at Dad, at his lean face, full of wrinkles caused by the worries of a young man bringing up two kids without a wife""; his behavior is something else though--at the beginning he acts the same big way any other new kid feeling small and strange would, and shouldn't, and knows it. What's nice about Tim is that he learns without rubbing it in, especially after he has to keep lying when one lie keeps snowballing--how could he know that the name on the glove he found would belong to about the most decent guy in the whole school, Tad Myers? Tim covers it up with some ink and a fib and another and another until he prepares an anonymous return plan that backfires; the truth out and the team he's just joined unforgiving, he turns to his dad. And it's the start of something good.

Pub Date: Sept. 21, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION