The Fabulous Fifty - A Jean Karl Book Author:Morton Grosser The Fabulous Fifty won the Commonwealth Club Medal in 1991 for Young Adult Literature. The Fabulous Fifty is narrated by Sol Janus, a 15-year-old Greek-American boy from a melting-pot neighborhood in Philadelphia. His club enters a newspaper contest to win a trip to the 1921 World Series, and Sol enters a new world along the way.