Up until now, Billy Baggs's life has been loaded with nevers. Never been
to a movie. Never played baseball with a real team. Never got over
feeling guilty for the loss of his brother. But change is in the air.
Billy discovers he has a natural talent for baseball, especially as a
pitcher. Maybe, just maybe, there's more in store for him than life on
the farm. But can Billy convince his father of that? Or is he destined
to spend the rest of his life pitching nothing but hay?Teenager Billy
Baggs is desperately needed on his family's struggling dairy farm, but
he's also an extraordinarily gifted natural baseball player. How he
struggles to reconcile his father's desire to keep him on the farm with
his coach's interest in getting him on the field is at the heart of this
'meaty story.... The complex characters grow and change in profoundly
real ways.''K. '[With] flashes of humor, a wealth of lovingly
recounted details evokes the difficult daily life on a small dairy
farm.''Publishers Weekly.
1994 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)
1993 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)