Baseball thief

McFarlane, Brian.

Book 2005

When a bus accidents strands a black baseball team in Indian River, Max and Marty Mitchell befriend the star players, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson. Soon the baseball players are wrongly accused of theft and thrown in jail. The Mitchells investigate to prove their new friends' innocence.

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