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Jack was on his way to the first baseball practice of the season. Everybody knew that Jack was the best baseball player in the small town of Bosville, but over the summer a new baseball player moved into town, named Joe. Joe was supposed to be better than Jack. Joe was only 15 and he already had college scouts looking at him and trying to get him to play for the team they were scouting for. For the first time in Jack’s baseball career he is going to have to play good to keep his position at shortstop. When Jack got to practice he went to go warm up. While he was warming he noticed Joe. Jack had not got a chance to talk to Joe during school because Joe had Just moved into town two days ago and Jack did not see Joe those two days …show more content…

Just then the coach blew the whistle signaling practice was starting so Jack told Joe “He can show him around sometime” and they both left to go take the field. Jack had noticed Joe was doing really good at practice but Jack did good himself. Jack usually played shortstop but today Jack and Joe alternated at shortstop. Jack really wanted to play shortstop and lead his team to the world series but Joe wanted to the same thing. Jack finally had some competition at shortstop for first time in his life. At the end of practice
Jack asked Joe if “He wanted to go out and get some pizza with him and he could show him around downtown.”
But Joe said “He had to go home and help his mom move their stuff into their new house, but maybe we could go get pizza with him another time”. Tomorrow afternoon Jack and Joe had their next practice.They started their season really early and only had four practices until there first game and the coach of Jack and Joe’s team had not announced the starter’s. This meant Jack and Joe both had a chance to start at shortstop so both Jack and Joe had to do good at practice to increase their chance to starting at shortstop. Today Jack and Joe had a batting practice. Jack and Joe both hit really good, Jack even hit a homerun over the

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