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Negron, Ray.
THE BOY OF STEEL : A BASEBALL DREAM COME TRUE
New York : Regan, 2006
IL 3-6, RL 6.3
ISBN 0060898704
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Young Michael loves watching the Yankees play baseball.  And he watches the games from his hospital bed.  He has cancer and is receiving treatment which keeps him in the hospital.  But when Yankee Robinson Cano visits Michael in the hospital, things don't look so bad.  And Michael may just be heading for a once in a lifetime opportunity.
SUBJECTS:     Courage -- Fiction.
                        Cancer -- Fiction.
                        Baseball -- Fiction.
                        New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- Fiction.

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