Back in the late 1960's or early 1970's, I read a book and Ican't remember what it's named or who wrote it.
I have a terrible memory for names. I can remember faces,events, things I've read, but I've never been good with names. I joke there arefour names I need to remember; my own, my wife's and my two kids', all the restare a bonus.
When I was a kid I read a fictional baseball book story thatreally hit home. I had checked the book out from the school library, read thebook a couple of times and really enjoyed it. I decided I wanted to write theauthor to express my enjoyment for the story he had written. I sat down at my parents' manual typewriter and wrote him a letter.Then the librarian at school helped me find the address for the publisher (inNew York?) and we sent the letter off to the author in care of the publisher. Ididn't know if he'd ever get it.
A few weeks later I got a two page, typed letter back fromthe author and I was shocked and excited. The author read my letter and he wroteback! How different it would be today with email.
That story came back to me when my son was young, liked toread and started playing baseball. I thought it would be fun to find the bookand read it together with him and let him know how much I enjoyed reading itwhen I was his age. But I couldn't remember the name of THE BOOK....
I went to the library to see if they could help. Thelibrarian asked if I could remember the color of the cover, some lists sortthem by that. I looked on-line at books written during that period and checkedout a few whose descriptions sounded right. When I got them in my hands Iscanned them, but they weren't THE BOOK.  
I no longer have the letter, it disappeared in one of the many movesI've made in the past 40 years. I've tried a couple of times and not found out the name ofthe book, so I thought I'd reach out to the twitterverse and see if there's areader, or sports fan, a book lover, an old librarian who might know the nameof this book.
Here's what I remember:I read it around 1971.It was about a young boy who was the bat boy or hung aroundwith a baseball team.The boy would find four-leaf clovers for players on the teamand even made some to make sure the players who believed in them had them.There was a player on the team, maybe the boy? who faked abunt, pulled back the bat and made a great hit.
 OK, that's not a lot to go on. Good luck, I hope you canhelp me find the name of the book and the author!


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