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Edgar, the horse, could not hit or run the bases, despite some rather wild assertions that he could, but he was an outfielder par excellence, a lot better, indeed, than Henri Dubonnier, the French-Canadian wood chopper who played next to him for that zany outfit, the Smoky Bellows Anvils.
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This sweet, humorous tale from my childhood combined two of my favorite thingsāhorses and baseballāmaking it the perfect mashup for me. The narrator, with tongue in cheek, recounts the story of two brothers in the boondocks who attempt to cobble together a baseball team to square off against rival towns. But because prospective ballplayers are few and far between, they enlist the services of Edgar, an all-white horse, to fill out their roster and play center field. Edgar canāt hit for beans, but he can chase down fly balls like Willie Mays, catching the ball between his teeth. Can anā¦
From Artie's list on horse-themed childrenās booksāand that aināt hay.
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