{"product_id":"2940169889048","title":"The Shortstop","description":"The Shortstop is a novel by Zane Grey¿a baseball insider¿about a 17 years old boy, who fights his way to success, and saves his mother and brother out of poverty.  Excerpt from the book:  \"I am going to be a baseball player.\" He waited quietly for her refusal, her reproach, her arguments, ready to answer them one by one.  \"I won't let you be a ball player.\"  \"Mother, since father left us to shift for ourselves I've been the head of the house. I never disobeyed you before, but now¿I've thought it out. I've made my plan.\"  \"Bah. Players are good-for-nothing loafers, rowdies. I won't have my son associate with them.\"  \"They've a bad name, I'll admit; but, mother, I don't think it's deserved. I'm not sure, but I believe they're not so black as they are painted. Anyway, even if they are, it won't hurt me. I've an idea that a young man can be square and successful in baseball as in anything else. I'd rather take any other chance, but there isn't any.\"","brand":"Jonah Magar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114911219952,"sku":"2940169889048","price":5.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169889048_p0.jpg?v=1763696453","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169889048","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}