
Bat Boy
My True Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankees
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Narrado por:
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Jason Harris
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Matthew McGough
School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults, Winner
Sixteen-year-old Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball, not necessarily in that order. His passion for the New York Yankees was absolute, complete with a poster of his hero, Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly, hanging on his bedroom wall. Despite having no connections whatsoever with the ballclub, Matt dreamed of sitting in the dugout with the fabled Bronx Bombers. So, in the fall of 1991, he wrote a letter in his very best penmanship to the New York Yankees asking for a position as a bat boy.
Miraculously, he got the job, and on April 7, 1992, Matt walked into the madness of the Yankee clubhouse on opening day. And there was Don Mattingly, Donnie Baseball himself, asking him to run an errand, an errand which soon induced panic in the rookie bat boy. Thus began two years of adventures and misadventures, from the perils of chewing tobacco while playing catch with the centerfielder, to being set up on a date by the bullpen, to studying for a history exam at 3 a.m. at Yankee Stadium, to his own folly as Matt gradually forgets he's not a baseball star, he's a high school student.
Bat Boy captures the lure and beauty of the American pastime, but much more it is a tale of what happens to a young man when his fondest dream comes true. Matthew McGough wonderfully evokes that twilight time just before adulthood, ripe with possibility, foolishness, and hard-won knowledge.
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"It is a pretty story, too, of a boy who made a dream come true and then remembered to live all the parts of it." (Booklist)
“Wonderful....It should eventually find its way to that very short shelf of enduring sports nonfiction, perhaps somewhere between Ball Four and Friday Night Lights.” (Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams and The Big Bam )
"Honest and self-effacing." (Publishers Weekly)
Fun
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Put on your cleats and sit next to Don Mattingly
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Prepare to relive your youth for a moment or two.
A Diamond
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A Gem
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90's MLB Clubhouse Culture and More
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What did you love best about Bat Boy?
Everything. Well written, moved along nicely, the narration (although it took a little while to get use to it) was great. Real stories about the NY Yankees that I grew up loving.What did you like best about this story?
As a teenager at that time, I would have done anything to have that job!What about Jason Harris’s performance did you like?
He got more and more into it as the book went on.80's Yankees Fans Will LOVE It!
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Wonderful fun
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