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Twelve-year-old April O’Day’s summer has gotten off to a flying start! As the daughter of a former minor-leaguer, she really knows baseball. And when she wins the opportunity to be a bat retriever for one week with her hometown’s minor league team, she proves it, transforming her seven-day dream job into a summer-long adventure of runs, hits, errors . . . and a mystery to solve.Baseball-playing shadows are on the field, which only she, her friend Darren, and the team’s owner, Mr. Haney, can see. And when April finds one of their shadow balls in the stands, the three are able to witness a 1940s Negro Leagues game.Who are these players—especially the one they call Flash, a lightning-fast base runner? And why are they at Haney Field? Can Marcus “Mayhem” Mayfield, a veteran of the Negro Leagues as well as the majors, help them solve this mystery? And as facts come into focus, will Mr. Haney try to keep an event from the 1960s hidden under the grandstands?Find out in this engaging baseball mystery by R. M. Clark.