Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

A straight-talking, fourteen-year-old first baseman, benched by mono, decides to take a swing at writing poetry in Ron Koertge’s clever, compelling new novel written in free verse.

Their pitcher walks our leadoff man.
Greg moves him up to second with a perfect sacrifice. Fabian loops one into right.

I’m up. Two on, one out. I’m the cleanup man. My job is to bring these guys home.

MVP Kevin Boland gets the news that he has mono and won’t be seeing a baseball field f…