Harm? Blow him away and burn him as hard as you can! It's a diamond!
In two squabbling settlements beneath the mountains of the American West, a drama unfolds that every little athlete's heart can understand, regardless of nationality. Eleven-year-old Luke, a member of a team of local children's baseball enthusiasts, despite his physical handicap, works hard day after day to pursue his dream, even though he has little chance to develop his talent on the local diamond. And then the ball of fate arrives. When a boy discovers an injured professional league fighter in the rocks, no one knows that the decisive strike has come. If not an outright home run.
The celebrity retaliates and secures the mountain amateurs help from the big city, which changes their prospects from the ground up. It would have gone on like clockwork if... If the rival group of little baseball players, their deserving coach, a wonderful teacher from Prague and all the locals didn't have to fight a much tougher battle than just themselves. Although they have overcome their froggy disputes and reached an agreement for the sake of the future, they will now face an unexpected opponent who has already broken another extraterrestrial...
This thrilling sports story about the power of outsiders, nominated for the Magnesia Litera 2023 in the category of prose for children and young people, vividly depicts the catching up of the meters that the teenage heroes are facing in their ending childhood and the intrigues of adults.
