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Baseball Fever
1981 novel by Johanna Hurwitz From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Baseball Fever[note 1] is an American children’s novel written by Johanna Hurwitz and published in 1981 by William Morrow and Company.
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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.
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Johanna Hurwitz conceived the book after realizing that her children were "obsessed" with baseball;[note 2] the plot developed into a situation between a father and a son.
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