Left-Handed Shortstop

What is Walter Moles to do? A budding ecologist, he'd rather pick up bugs with his pooter than field baseballs. But the honor of the fourth grade is at stake because the fifth grade had challenged it to a baseball game. In the excitement, Goony, the hotheaded captain of the fourth-grade team, chooses Walter as his star shortstop. And Goony won't give Walter a chance to confess that he's a lousy ball player or to tell him that there hasn't been a left-handed shortstop since 1892. Walter has got to become a great shortstop in a hurry or else find a way to weasel out of the game. Can his good pal Casey Valentine scheme up a surefire strategy that will keep Walter from striking out?Giff, Patricia Reilly is the author of 'Left-Handed Shortstop', published 1980 under ISBN 9780385285346 and ISBN 0385285345.