The book I read was Baseball Crazy, there are ten different stories through out my book. Reading the title makes you think that each chapter is going to tell you something about baseball. Like the rules of the game, but each chapter is a different story. Baseball Crazy was a book written to tell you about baseball situations they go through.
The 1st story tells about a boy who lives in a foster home and a man that goes by the name Guz Zernial. Guz takes the boy to a baseball game and the boy is confused because he has never seen the game played. He asks Guz a lot of questions, and he gets annoyed and says just watch. When the boy watches the teams number one player hit a home run, the boy is shocked and even seems surprised. The 2nd story tells about a boy named Mark Pang, and how he is very bad at baseball. It is about how there is an impossible square which has three sections. Mark can try to catch the ball, move or get hit in the head. Mark has never caught a ball in his life and now he is going to try to catch. He is scared that he will drop it. Every other time a ball gets hit to him he is told to move outing the way, if it is a pop up then he is told to let shortstop catch it because he plays third. The
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His dad says boy, turn on the television and watch number 2. The boy watches him and every time he did something good his dad smiled. This made the boy want to be like Derek Jeter, so he could make his dad happy. Something about the way he plays made him think of harmony. His mom knew he could always catch they saw it as a gift, a skill he already learned. He learned to play the violin in the mean time while he couldn't play baseball. First day of little league he tells his coach he's a short stop, the coach said not anymore. He looks at a tall long and lengthy kid playing shortstop that was really good. The coach tells him that he is the new catcher and welcomes him to the