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Paperback The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball Book

ISBN: 1943006326

ISBN13: 9781943006328

The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball

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Twelve-year-old Leon is among a group of 120 boys sent to New England in the 1870s by the Emperor of China as part of a Chinese educational mission. Once there, he falls in love with baseball, even though he's expressly forbidden to play. The boy's host father, who's recently lost his own son in an accident, sees and cultivates Leon's interest, bringing joy back into his own life and teaching Leon more about America through its favorite sport than...

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