Park, Linda Sue
Keeping Score : A Story about life, faith, and Americ's favorite pastime, baseball. - New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2008. - 208
When the Brooklyn Dodgers play baseball, Maggie Fortini keeps track of every pitch, hit, and run. Every time the guys at the firehouse come back from a fire, she secretly makes the sign of the cross. And now with her friend and baseball mentor, Jim, serving over in Korea, she writes him every week. She does it all because, somehow, just maybe, her friends will be safe and the Dodgers will finally win the World Series. But time and again Maggie is disappointed. The Dodgers keep losing, and Jim...well, he stops writing her back. So maybe none of it matters. Maybe everything she does is useless and doesn't make any difference at all. Or maybe it does.
978-0-547-24897-4
Baseball - Juvenile Fiction
Keeping Score : A Story about life, faith, and Americ's favorite pastime, baseball. - New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2008. - 208
When the Brooklyn Dodgers play baseball, Maggie Fortini keeps track of every pitch, hit, and run. Every time the guys at the firehouse come back from a fire, she secretly makes the sign of the cross. And now with her friend and baseball mentor, Jim, serving over in Korea, she writes him every week. She does it all because, somehow, just maybe, her friends will be safe and the Dodgers will finally win the World Series. But time and again Maggie is disappointed. The Dodgers keep losing, and Jim...well, he stops writing her back. So maybe none of it matters. Maybe everything she does is useless and doesn't make any difference at all. Or maybe it does.
978-0-547-24897-4
Baseball - Juvenile Fiction