This first book in a series about fictional encounters between children and their sports heroes features home-run legend Hank Aaron.
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The inspirational memoir of an immigrant child who lived his entire life with prosthetics and followed his dreams to work in major league baseball.
Swinging for the Fences
How American Legion Baseball transformed a group of boys into a team of men.
Originally published: Champaign, IL: News-Gazette, 2010.
Swinging for the Fences will transport you to a simpler place and time in our country's history, when kids were allowed to be kids, and baseball was a game of integrity and simplicity.