Nate the Great and the Stolen Base is a children's novel by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. The illustrations are by Marc Simont. The novel, a book in the Nate the Great series, was first published in 1994.
This is a book about how Oliver lost his purple plastic octopus, the stolen base of the title. Nate says in this book that he is sometimes a baseball player.
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