The title of this book is Baseball Turnaround and the author is Matt Christopher.
This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.
Sportsmanship is an important when you are in sports. When Sandy was coaching the Dolphins, an orphanage baseball team, he gave good comments like "you'll get em next time" and "nice job". He always kept the kids motivated and ready to go by giving high fives and slapping each other's hands. When he was playing on the Raiders he missed an easy catch and some people would go off on a rampage but Sandy he just kept going like it never happened. When Perry......
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Approximate Word Count: 700
Approximate Pages: 3 (260 words per double-spaced page) |