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The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

• "[A] wildly entertaining yarn... The story lopes along on the strength of its delightful and articulately brusque dialogue and Jack's far-fetched innovations (his 'convolutionary secrets' include the hit-and-run and suicide squeeze plays)." —Booklist
  
  
• "The Desperado Who Stole Baseball has it all—rich baseball lore, a rollicking Western adventure, and storytelling gold. A terrific book." —Mike Lupica, author of Heat and The Big Field
  
  
• "Ritter writes in an idiom-laden, mock-epic style full of bombast and bravado. When he earns a chance to play on his uncle's team, Jack exults in 'standing amongst the tobacco-chewing, whisker-chin-drooling, cuss-word-spewing brigade.' Reminiscent of the works of Sid Fleischman, this tall-tale page-turner stands alone..." —School Library Journal
  
  
• "Fans of baseball will chortle all the way through every impossible moment." —Kirkus Reviews
  
  
• The Desperado Who Stole Baseball has been selected by the American Library Association for its 2009 Junior Library Guild book club for school and public librarians.