Another book that features baseball is Waiting for Teddy Williams by Howard Frank Mosher. It is an engaging and offbeat coming-of-age novel that stars young Ethan Allen. His dream is to play for the Boston Red Sox. Ethan is growing up in a small town in rural Vermont in the 1980s and lives with his fearless mother who bootlegs liquor to pay their property taxes.
Ethan has never met his father, so he confides in the statue of Ethan Allen, his namesake, on the town’s square. He asks the statue to send him someone to help him with his baseball dreams. Could the drifter who appears one summer be the answer to his plea?
You will start rooting for Ethan from the very first page of this quirky and humorous story.
~Rosemary
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