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The Pitcher 2

by William Hazelgrove
The Pitcher 2

Ricky Hernandez is now a senior and all seems to be going well until a new pitcher moves into town from Texas who can pitch almost a hundred miles an hour. MLB Scouts have been snooping around but now Ricky’s future is in jeopardy with the fireball pitcher Bailey Hutchinson on the team. When he beats Ricky out of his starting spot and his violent father Fernando returns it seems his dream to become a Major League Pitcher is gone. Ricky returns to the field with The Pitcher to relearn the art of pitching one more time.

Pages: 176
Pub Date: 09-01-2015
Softcover: 12.95 978-1-63393-002-5
Hardcover: 26.95 978-1-63393-089-6
Ebook: 4.49 978-1-63393-003-2

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The reviews are in…

  • “Hazelgrove’s writing reflects the dramatic arc of a baseball game.”


    —Junior Library Guild

  • “You can taste the ballpark dust, feel the smack of the ball in your glove, and feel assured that, somehow, these three strongly drawn characters will push on to victory.”


    —Booklist

  • “William Hazelgrove has fashioned a near classic baseball story.”


    —San Francisco Review of Books

William Hazelgrove is the National Bestselling author of ten novels and three nonfiction titles. Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa, Jack Pine, The Bad Author, My Best Year, The Pitcher 2, and Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson, Forging A President: How the Wild West Created Teddy Roosevelt, and Al Capone and the Worlds Fair of 1933. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly and Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards Junior Library Guild Selections Literary Guild Selections, and sold to the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications and has been featured on NPR All Things Considered. The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today have all covered his books with features. He runs a cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic. He lives in Chicago.

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