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1.AndrewJ posted on October 25, 2012 at 03:02 PM #hit 0 | hit 0
As a kid I remember liking Slote's Tony and Me, which was a very moralisitc Afterschool Special-esque story about shoplifting. Slote named one of the characters in Matt Gargan's Boy, which was published in 1975 after The Boss bought the Yankees, George Steinbrunner, curiously enough.
I read a lot of those sports books when I was a kid in the 70s. I don't think I ever read Slote. I will look for Jake so that my son can read it with me.
I don't remember Alfred Slote, probably because I was busy reading every Matt Christopher book 50 times.
4.AndrewJ posted on October 25, 2012 at 03:33 PM #hit 0 | hit 0
I also remember liking Barbara Cohen's Thank You, Jackie Robinson, about a relationship between a precocious (probably borderline-Asperger's) white boy and elderly black man who follow the Dodgers in 1947, and Jonah Kalb's The Goof That Won the Pennant, about an underacheiving Little League team who eke out a title (thanks to a Fred Merkle-like play in the deciding game)...
5.morineko posted on October 25, 2012 at 04:06 PM #hit 0 | hit 0
It's kind of funny; I only read Slote's baseball novels after I had read all his juvenile SF novels.
(and I only read the Christophers with sfnal elements)
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1. AndrewJ posted on October 25, 2012 at 03:02 PM # hit 0 | hit 0(and I only read the Christophers with sfnal elements)
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