BOOK: Safe at second by Johnson

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Johnson, Scott._Safe at second_,1999 [0-399-23365-2]
This is a story of friendship and self-reliance all wrapped around HS
baseball.  The star pitcher of the HS team gets a ball in the eye
and end up losing the eye.  His friend (a mediocre player) does
everything to try an help him -- even to the point of getting him to
pitch again. At the end of the story the friend realizes that he had
been living through his star friend and now they both had to do
things for themselves.  This 245 page book has a touching ending
where the former star pitcher leaves the mound for the last time
and his friend lets him do it on his own.  For the first third of the
book you think it is about the star pitcher and his unfortunate
accident but as the story comes to and end you realize it really
more about his friend.
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Frederick Muller
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