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Summary Of Best Of The Best By Tim Green

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A book that I have enjoyed reading for the past month was, Best of The Best by Tim Green. This book consists of 262 pages of thrilling detective work and amazing baseball. The book’s main idea is about a boy who has just won the state championship and is going on to the Little League World Series. The main character of this book is Josh, he has a chance to play in the Little League World Series because of his outstanding baseball ability. The setting of this book is mainly out on the baseball field where Josh can forget about his worries. This book takes place in the early 21st century. Since Josh’s dad was the head coach for Josh’s team that won state, he received Nike deal for thousands of dollars. Because of this deal by Nike Josh's dad wanted to …show more content…

He then fell in love with his realtor and started cheating on his wife. Josh didn't like his dad dating someone else so he asked Jaden to find something about Diane that his father wouldn't like. His dad heard from his new girlfriend Diane that there would be a Little League team. Josh's dad wanted josh to play on the team, but Josh would only play if his friend Benji would. Josh's dad new girlfriend rigged the team stats making Benji eligible to play. In the first game as a little league team Josh’s team started to celebrate too early and almost lost the game, but because of Benji amazing one handed catch they won the game. After the game in the hotel Josh and Diane’s son Zamboni become friends. Because of this new friendship between Josh and Zamboni, Josh taught Zamboni to place a perfect bunt, after this Zamboni told Josh to call him Z

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