01355cam a2200313 4500 133579302 TxAuBib 20120508120000.0 110408s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011012740 9781442433465 hardcover 1442433469 hardcover (OCoLC)726695763 DLC eng DLC BDX VPL B@L YDXCP UIU TxAuBib Tooke, Wes. King of the mound : my summer with Satchel Paige / Wes Tooke. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012. 155 p. ; 22 cm. "A Junior Library Guild selection"--Jkt. flap. Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season. Includes historical notes. Ages 8-12. 20120509. J.L.G. 2012/03 $13.95. Paige, Satchel 1906-1982 Juvenile fiction. Poliomyelitis Juvenile fiction. Bismarck (N.D) History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Baseball stories.