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Waiting For Teddy Williams
by Howard Frank Mosher


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A portrait of teenage baseball phenom Ethan Allen, living in a Red Sox-obsessed Vermont town, coming of age in a slice of America that is almost gone.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 288 pages
08/18/2004
$24.00

ISBN: 0618197222

Fiction
General Literature & Fiction

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Chicago Sun-Times Ron Franscell

Mosher's blend of quirky characters, contemporary mythology and mischievous prose is utterly original and entertaining.

Publishers Weekly

One of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory.

Kirkus Reviews

A baseball story as sweet and heart-gladdening as the juice from a ripe peach.

Booklist Bill Ott

Must reading for all the citizens of Red Sax Nation. [Aug 2004, p.1901]

Boston Globe Brad Leithauser

Taking the book on its own terms, then, I only wish the comedy were a little sharper...Much of this comes across as that sort of nudging humor, with a laugh track serving as an auditory elbow in the ribs, which one associates with TV sitcoms.

Los Angeles Times Susan Salter Reynolds

Ethan is a classic, even if the world that Mosher builds around him is littered with vernacular. You almost have to love baseball to enjoy the novel. [15 Aug 2004, p.R11]

Washington Post Matt Schudel

The novel devolves into an unwieldy farrago that resembles a Southern gothic (with a worse climate) awkwardly joined with "Angels in the Outfield" and "Major League." Its story moves swiftly and has a certain sweetness, but the characters and plot are exasperatingly predictable, like a pitcher who telegraphs his curveball.

Entertainment Weekly Daniel Fierman

A swing-and-miss, a mishmash of olde tyme tropes that in its better moments recalls the baseball pulps of the '40s and '50s, and in its worst, a rejected screenplay for ''Field of Dreams.''

The average user rating for this book is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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Chris P gave it a10:
Really awesome book, plus it helps im a boston fan

[Anonymous] gave it a9:
Howard Frank Mosher is a wonderful storyteller and a great writer. This book is ostensibly about baseball and Vermont, but it's really about life, love, and longing.

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Waiting For Teddy Williams by Howard Frank Mosher

Waiting For Teddy Williams
by Howard Frank Mosher