
Slide! is the laugh-out-loud true story of the greatest collapse in baseball history, told from the perspective of a boy who lived it. The Philadelphia Phillies' bid for the pennant in 1964 was an almost flawless run. With twelve games to play, the team's lead seemed insurmountable. For 11-year-old Carl Wolfson, it was the happiest summer of his young life. Then the unthinkable happened. With each...
Hardcover: 212 pages
Publisher: Mascot Books (December 5, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1684015685
ISBN-13: 978-1684015689
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 604223
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I grew up fifteen minutes from where Carl spent his historic 1964 so I "feel his pain". The curse of Chico Ruiz, stealing home with Frank Robinson at the plate, will always be with me. Enough about me. I loved the humble story of Carl and his extende...
n loss, Phillies fans were thrown into despair, and Carl's crumbling dream of a World Series forced him to take refuge in comedy. Luckily, it was all around him. His bickering parents (who put up Chinese symbols for "peace" and "happiness" and argued for years about which was which), his grandmother (who was so stubbornly Republican that she refused to carry a Roosevelt dime), and his mouthy great aunt (whose protest letters to the Phillies front office became local legend) created plenty of opportunity for distraction.