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Both Maggie Fortini and her brother JoeyMick were named for baseball greatJoe DiMaggio. Unlike JoeyMick Maggie doesnt play baseballbut at almost tenyears old she is a dyedinthewool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie canrecite all the players statistics and understands the subtleties of the game.Unfortunately Jim Maine is a Giants fan but its Jim who teaches Maggie thefine art of scoring a baseball game. Not only can she revisit every play ofevery inning but by keeping score she feels shes more than just a fan sheshelping her team. Jim is drafted into the army and sent to Korea and althoughMaggie writes to him often his silence is just one of a string ofdisappointmentsbeing a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the early 1950s meant seasonafter season of near misses and year after year of dashed hopes. But Maggiegoes on trying to help the Dodgers and when she finds out that Jim needs helptoo shes determined to provide it. Against a background of major leaguebaseball and the Korean War on the home front Maggie looks for and finds away to make a difference. Even those readers who think they dont care aboutbaseball will be drawn into the world of the true and ardent fan. Linda SueParks captivating story will of course delight those who are already keepingscore. «
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