An edgar award finalistlenny norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. unfortunately, he's no player himself (according to him, he's the worst there ever was.) but he'd make a heck of an announcer. he gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, mike and other mike, watching phillies games from their lawn coucha sweet outdoor tv arrangement mike's dad hooked them up with. being a real announcer is his dream, and he gets his chance to prove himself when he enters an armchair announcer contest and wins. the prize: he gets to be the broadcaster, live, for one inning at a real phillies game.the game goes very wrong, though. before lenny gets to do his inning, a young, promising pitcher fresh out of the minors literally drops dead on the mound. the official verdict is that he died of a heart attack, but lenny has a hunch there's something more going on. so he and the mikes set out to investigate. the suspects are many, and though the trio barks up the wrong tree a few times, they are always right on the heels of the real killer. . . ..

 

This book is part of a book series called Lenny And the Mikes Mysteries .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 250 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Yearling Books .