The Legend of Mickey Tussler
Recognized as a prodigy pitcher in spite of his autism, seventeen-year-old Mickey Tussler is recruited for a minor-league affiliate of the Boston Braves but finds his memories of an abusive father, heckling peers, and inability to socialize hampering his prospects. 15,000 first printing.
Recognized as a prodigy pitcher in spite of his autism, seventeen-year-old Mickey Tussler is recruited for a minor-league affiliate of the Boston Braves but finds his memories of an abusive father, heckling peers, and inability to socialize hampering his prospects. 15,000 first printing.
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Format: BOOK
ISBN:
9780312381097 (0312381093)
ASIN: DIqtL_2GJ1UC
Publish date: 2008-04-29
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
When his car breaks down in during a routing scouting trip, Milwaukee Brewer's coach Arthur Murphy never expected to stumble upon an autistic, seventeen year old pitching phoneme. Nor could "Murph" have imagined that introducing young Mickey Tussler to the world of minor league baseball would spur h...