Looking for old book by a baseball team bat boy.
July 29, 2024 5:39 AM   Subscribe

Back in the 1980s, I flipped through/read some of a 60s or 70s book by a guy who'd been a bat boy for a major league baseball team (maybe the Cardinals). I don't remember the title or author. I am trying to find it again, but googling is hard because I just pull up other, much later books about bat boys. I don't really expect anybody here to be able to identify the book on such poor information, but are there any library types out there with ideas about how to locate it?
posted by JanetLand to Media & Arts (6 answers total)
 
This is a long shot and I don't remember that plot line in particular, but I read everything by Matt Christopher when I was a kid
posted by falsedmitri at 6:24 AM on July 29, 2024


Response by poster: Oh sorry, I wasn't clear, it's a nonfiction book.
posted by JanetLand at 6:58 AM on July 29, 2024


Best answer: I searched WorldCat for books with "bat boy" or "batboy" published before 1980.

I'll link you to the search results, if you want to look through them further, but there actually is one about a bat boy with the Cardinals! It's Big League Bat Boy by Jerry Gibson, which is out of print and hard to find, but I'm including the link in case you recognize the cover.
posted by Jeanne at 7:03 AM on July 29, 2024


Response by poster: That's it!! Jeanne you are a rock star!
posted by JanetLand at 7:31 AM on July 29, 2024 [1 favorite]


Big League Bat Boy! I read it dozens of times as a baseball-obsessed kid. Hope you can track down a copy!
posted by Sweetie Darling at 8:46 AM on July 29, 2024


Ask MeFi is great at finding old books. I asked about one from my childhood and got the right answer within minutes. The book is long out of print, and there's no e-edition, but a statewide search of our library systems turned up a copy in another part of Ohio and my library requested it and I got to read it again!

I'm sharing this as an idea for you if you can't locate a print copy. Somewhere, a library has this.
posted by Kangaroo at 3:27 PM on July 29, 2024


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