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A Mickey Tussler Novel
Skyhorse Publishing
April 2012
On Sale: April 1, 2012
Featuring: Mickey Tussler; Arthur Murphy; Lester Sledge
304 pages
ISBN: 1616086637
EAN: 9781616086633
Kindle: B007NLRWBY
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“A curiously poignant baseball tale of adversity and
intolerance, compassion and hope, that elevates autism
fiction to fantastic heights.” —Darryl Strawberry
It’s 1949 and eighteen-year-old pitching phenom Mickey
Tussler is back with the rejuvenated minor league Brewers in
the sequel to The Legend of Mickey Tussler (the basis for
the television movie A Mile in His Shoes). Despite Mickey’s
proclamation that he will never play baseball again after
last season’s violent conclusion, his manager—and now
surrogate father—Arthur Murphy cajoles the emotionally
fragile, socially awkward boy with autism into giving it
another shot. Mickey reluctantly returns to the field and
must once again cope with the violence and hatred around
him. When a young African American player joins the team,
the entire team is subjected to racial threats and episodes
of violence, one of which Mickey witnesses firsthand.
Struggling to understand such ugliness and hatred, and
fearful of reprisal should he tell anyone about what he has
seen, the boy’s performance on the field suffers. Mickey now
must deal with a side of human nature he scarcely comprehends.
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