MADISON IS NOT your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesnt use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summerthe first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball. Who knew it would be so much pressure? Crowds flock to the games. Her team will win the championshipif she can keep up her pitching streak. Meanwhile, shes got a crush on a fellow player, her best friend abandons her for the popular girls, the O on her Hintons uniform forms a bulls-eye over her left breast, and the boy she punched on the last day of school plans to bean her in the championship game.From the Hardcover edition.