Kid Coach (7 page)

As always, the author would like to thank Scot Mondore at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. This time, Mr. Mondore dug up interesting information on player-coach Lou Boudreau.

One of Fred Bowen’s earliest memories is watching the 1957 World Series with his brothers and father on the family’s black-and-white television in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Mr. Bowen was four years old.

When he was six years old, he was a batboy for his older brother Rich’s Little League team. At age nine, he played on a team himself, spending a great deal of time keeping the bench warm. By age eleven, he was a Little League All-Star.

Over a period of thirteen years, Mr. Bowen coached thirty-one different kids’ sports teams in soccer, baseball, softball, and basketball.

Mr. Bowen is the author of a number of sports novels for young readers. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife Peggy Jackson. His daughter is a college student and his son is a college baseball coach.

Mr. Bowen writes a weekly sports column for kids in the
Washington Post.

Visit his website at
www.fredbowen.com
.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Lee Boudreau photo courtesy of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library, Cooperstown, NY.

Copyright © 1996 by Fred Bowen

Cover design by Thomas Gonzalez and Maureen Withee
Book design by Melanie McMahon Ives

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