Fielder's Choice

Beneath the baseball and the shuck-and-jive narration is a story about a young man learning to live his own life. -School Library Journal

Andrew Jackson Fielder dreams about pitching in the major leagues. It is an unlikely dream for a kid growing up in Smackover, Arkansas, in 1939. But for Fielder, it comes true, partly due to the afternoons he and his brother spend practicing pitches in a pipe yard down in the south Arkansas oil patch. However, this humorous coming of age story is more abou...