TY - BOOK AU - Ripken,Cal AU - Cowherd,Kevin TI - Super-sized slugger: a novel SN - 9781423140016 U1 - FIC PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Disney Hyperion Books KW - Baseball KW - Fiction KW - Moving, Household KW - Problem youth KW - Overweight persons N1 - Fiction N2 - Cody Parker is the new kid in school. He's overweight, he's scared, and he hates his new life in Dullsville, Maryland, aka Baltimore, where he's a target -- okay, a big target -- for brutal teasing. But he loves baseball. And despite his size, he plays third base like a dream. Too bad he's competing for the starting job on the Orioles of the Dulaney Babe Ruth League against budding hoodlum Dante Rizzo, who vows to squeeze Cody's head like a grape if he beats him out. ER -