Baseball Fever
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| Author | Johanna Hurwitz |
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| Illustrator | Ray Cruz |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel Realistic fiction |
| Publisher | William Morrow and Company |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 0-688-00710-4 |
Baseball Fever[note 1] is an American children’s novel written by Johanna Hurwitz and published in 1981 by William Morrow and Company.
It features Ezra Feldman as the protagonist, depicted as having an obsession with baseball. The book is primarily centered on Ezra and his struggle to get his scholarly father interested in baseball, his father loathing it and instead preferring chess and sociology.[1][2]
The book is set primarily in Flushing, New York, although the story includes Princeton, New Jersey, and other locations.
