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About the Book
1845:
Felix Schneider, a 10-year-old immigrant from Germany, cheers the New
York Knickerbockers as they play Three-Out, All-Out.
1864: Union soldier Louis Schneider plays baseball between battles
in the Civil War.
1893: Arnold Schneider meets his hero King Kelly, one of professional
baseball's first big stars.
1908: Walter Snider, batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas, tries to
sneak a black pitcher into the Majors by pretending he's Native American.
1926: Numbers wiz Frankie Snider cons a con with the help of a fellow
Brooklyn Robins fan.
1945: Kat Flint becomes a star for the Grand Rapids Chicks in the
All-American Girls Baseball League.
1957: Ten-year-old Jimmy Flint thinks bullies and Sputnik are
enough to worry about-until the Dodgers announce they're leaving Brooklyn.
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March 2009
Ages 8 to 12
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1981:
Michael Flint finds himself pitching a perfect game during the Little
League season at Prospect Park.
2002: Snider Flint tracks down the strange story of a bat that
belonged to one of Brooklyn's greatest baseball players.
One family,
nine generations. One city, nine innings of baseball.
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