Opening Day: Or, the Return of Satchel Paige
- ISBN-10
- 0970930518
- ISBN-13
- 9780970930514
- Series
- Opening Day
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 108
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-04
- Publisher
- Livereads
- Author
- Les Standiford
Description
When a downtrodden baseball team owner discovers his groundskeeper was once a star in the Negro Leagues, a scheme is hatched--with an outcome that no one predicts.
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