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Long, Loren.
GAME 1 : PORKOPOLIS
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2007.
IL 3-6, RL 4.4
ISBN 1416918639
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 The year is 1899 and the Travelin' Nine are traveling around playing baseball to raise money to pay the bills.  They have an advantage over their opponents though.  A mysterious baseball that has a hole in it.  What is going on here?  And why is Griffith acting so strange?  If you like baseball and want to know what it was like way back when, check out the first of the Barnstormers series.
SUBJECTS:     Baseball -- Fiction.
                        Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
                        Supernatural -- Fiction.
                        Cincinnati (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
                        Historical fiction.

 
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