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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2017 | Elementary
K-Gr 3—In 1959 Boston, a young African American baseball fan named Bernard anxiously waits for the Minor League player Pumpsie Green to join the Red Sox. It is the last team with an all-white lineup, but change is in the air. Bernard and his family continue to face racial discrimination from white fans and policemen at Fenway Park when they attend games. But after...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
It's 1959, and the Boston Red Sox--the last all-white Major League Baseball team--finally call up a black player named Pumpsie Green. Fictio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
