We hope that his book fund will continue to grow and provide books for many years to come.īelow is a listing of Books that Have Been Purchased through Matthew's Book Fund. Their Spring 2009 newsletter, Speaking Volumes, included an article about Matthew (note that it is on page 7). Nine innings to the game-nine months to the school year? Surely some imaginative history teachers will mull the possibilities of an ongoing readaloud.Donate online to Matthew Kesti Memorial Book Fund at Razoo While change and continuity is the pervasive theme, Gratz has crafted each generational snapshot to capture a pivotal moment that can be appreciated as a bijou of historical fiction. Just when it seems like the current generation is too self-absorbed to care, the family is drawn back to the game through baseball memorabilia, some of which readers will suspect have passed through ancestral hands before hitting the auction market. As the Schneiders anglicize their name to Snider, and the female line takes on the surname Flint, the family comes in contact with baseball heroes and has-beens, participates in the All American Girls Baseball League and the Little League, and cheers for the Dodgers (and, ahem, even the Yankees).
Son Louis will save the life of a Confederate soldier who loves baseball as much as he does. First-generation German Jewish immigrant Felix is injured while fighting a Manhattan fire, and he never gets a chance to play the game, but his hand-sewn baseball and devotion to the game will pass to his heirs.
From the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, baseball has run in the veins of the Schneiders, and the nine short stories that constitute this latest baseball outing from Gratz (author of Samurai Shortstop, BCCB 7/06) cunningly illuminate the confluence of baseball and family history as it plays out across nine generations.
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