Published 1989 via Moody Pub
★★
Primary takeaway: The author had been contracted to write a religious Teen Issue Book...but all he wanted to do was write about baseball. His solution: write about baseball, slip in the occasional reference to a Teen Issue, and solve it all with God. Very nearly the first half of the book (which, to be fair, is a wee little thing, slimmer even than the anorexic character of the book) is taken up by the book's first baseball game. There's a quick check-in with our anorexic Teen Issue character, then back to baseball. Another quick check-in for some Teen Issue drama and fainting (somehow the only person a sick teenager trusts to talk to is an eleven-year-old boy she barely knows?)...then back to baseball.
That's enough Teen Issue Book for me for now, but I'm amused to see that most of the other descriptions in this series say something about 'besides playing all their favorite sports...' I'm thinking this writer found a niche the publisher would pay for and ran with it—through as many bases as he could steal.
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