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Matt christopher was a gifted athlete as a youth and became interested in writing at age fourteen, but it was 1941 before he sold his first story, the missing finger points, todetective story magazine. Lot matt christopher sports chapter bk set baseball. In this exciting biography, matt christopher, the number one childrens sportswriter in america, puts you on the basketball court with the legendary superstar. Series was designed to cover groups of books generally understood as such see wikipedia. I found book awesome cause when ever i fell bored and just read this book cause if make me know more about that person also he really famous but i play basket ball a little bot but i am a cricket fan but i still like basket ball.
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