01808cam a2200265 4500 309115616 TxAuBib 20170826120000.0 081205s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008052741 9781601421364 pbk. 1601421362 pbk. 9781601422378 electronic 1601422377 electronic TxAuBib Pittman, Allison. Stealing Home [PB] : a novel / Allison Pittman. 1st ed. Colorado Springs : Multnomah, 2009. 344 p. ; 21 cm. It’s 1905 and the Chicago Cubs are banking on superstar Donald “Duke” Dennison’s golden arm to help them win the pennant. Only one thing stands between Duke and an unprecedented ten thousand dollar contract: alcohol. When sportswriter David Voyant whisks Duke to the one-horse town of Picksville, Missouri, so he can sober up in anonymity, Duke bides his time flirting with Ellie Jane Voyant, his unofficial chaperone, who would rather hide herself in the railway station ticket booth than face the echoes of childhood taunts. Ned Clovis, the feed store clerk, has secretly loved Ellie Jane since childhood, but he loves baseball and the Duke almost as much--until he notices Ellie Jane may be succumbing to the star’s charm. Then there’s Morris, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, whose only dream is to break away from Picksville. When Duke discovers his innate talent for throwing a baseball, Morris might just have found his way out. Providence brings them together. Tragedy threatens to tear them apart. Will love be enough to bring them home? 20170826. Baseball stories. Christian fiction.