Horsin' Around (Sluggers Series #2) »

LOREN LONG's illustrations have received two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and his first picture book, Angela Johnson's I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for Illustrations and his interpretation of Walt Whitman's When I Heard Learn'd Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor. His work has appeared in Times, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly, Loren also illustrated Madonna's #1 New York Times Best Seller Mr. Peabody's Apples and Watty Piper's The Little Engine That Could. He lives in West Chester, Ohio, with his wife and two sons.

Phil Bildner is the author of the New York Times bestselling Sluggers! series, the Texas Bluebonnet Award-winning Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy and its companion, The Shot Heard 'Round the World, both illustrated by C. F. Payne; and Twenty-One Elephants, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. His latest picture book is Turkey Bowl, illustrated by C.F Payne. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The year is 1899, and the Travelin' Nine are crisscrossing the good ol' U.S. of A., raising money to pay off the Payne family's big-league debt!

As the team heads into the River City, Griffith is beginning to realize that there's more at risk than meets the eye, something beyond the need to raise money — something involving the ball that could put his entire family in danger.

Ruby is eager to help solve the mystery of the ball and plans on keeping her eyes and ears wide open and writing everything down. She knows the answer is out there. All she has to do is see the things that others don't. And figure out what those things mean.

Then there's Graham, who usually only thinks about how to get more time on the baseball field. Even he's beginning to notice that there are strange and shady characters at just about every turn.

Finally there's the Chancellor, one of the wealthiest and greediest businessmen in the entire world. And it looks like he's got his eye on the ball!

CHAPTER 1 - THE LETTER

CHAPTER 2 - TRAVELING DOWN THE OHIO RIVER

CHAPTER 3 - MY JOURNAL, BY RUBY PAYNE

CHAPTER 4 - UNABLE TO SLEEP

CHAPTER 5 - ON THE STREETS OF LOUISVILLE

CHAPTER 6 - THE RIVER CITY SHOWDOWN

CHAPTER 7 - CHURCHILL DOWNS

CHAPTER 8 - STUNNED DISBELIEF

CHAPTER 9 - THE GAME BEGINS

CHAPTER 10 - THE RUBE WADDELL SHOW

CHAPTER 11 - HORSES, HORSES, EVERYWHERE!

CHAPTER 12 - LEARNED IN LOUISVILLE

CHAPTER 13 - BEN BRUSH!

CHAPTER 14 - COMING BACK!

CHAPTER 15 - THE NINTH INNING...

CHAPTER 16 - NOW OR NEVER

CHAPTER 17 - THREE OUTS TO GO

CHAPTER 18 - THE VICTORY BURGOO

CHAPTER 19 - SCRIBE SHARES

CHAPTER 20 - THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH