Catcher With A Glass Arm
Matt Christopher
Hardcover
(Little, Brown and Company, Aug. 16, 1964)
"Steal, Peter!" a Tigers player yelled from the bench. "That catcher can't throw! He's got a glass arm!" Jody knew that Moonie Meyers and the other boys on the team felt that he was losing games for them. He just seemed to be afraid to throw the ball hard, and it usually fell short of his mark. But at least Jody could hit. That is until one day at bat when he got beamed with the ball. From then on he was always stepping away om the plate. The two worst thing that could happen to a ball player- not throwing well and being afraid of a pitched ball- had happened to him. He might as well give up baseball. How Jody makes a friend who helps him over his fear makes as good a baseball story as Matt Christopher has yet written.
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