Results tagged “Sports”

BOOK NAME: Honus & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
AUTHOR: Dan Gutman

I don't collect baseball cards, but I like baseball. This story is about a baseball card that's worth much more than money. It can take you back in time.

It starts when 12-year-old baseball card collector Joe Stoshack helps his old neighbor clean out her attic. She tells him to throw everything in the garbage. While cleaning the attic, he finds an old baseball card for Honus Wagner, which is one of the rarest baseball cards in the world. Joe can't figure out if he should tell his neighbor about it or not. He takes it home and it takes him back in time to when Honus played 100 years ago in the World Series. While back in time, Joe learns that his old neighbor was actually once a girlfriend of Honus Wagner.

The book tells what life and baseball was like a long time ago. I thought it was interesting how baseball players used to pay people to come to their games instead of the other way around. I didn't know anything about Honus Wagner before reading this book, but now I know a lot more about him and the way baseball was played so long ago. If you like baseball, you'll love this book.

BOOK NAME: Two-Minute Drill, A Comeback Kids novel
AUTHOR: Mike Lupica

This time I'm writing about a sports book on football. Two-Minute Drill is about a kid named Scott that meets a kid named Chris, and they both love football.

Scott showed Chris his backyard football field that even had goalposts. They practice every day. They both try out for the Eagles and make the team. Chris is the quarterback and is one of the best players. Scott sits on the bench most of the game, but likes to practice drop-kicks in his backyard. A drop-kick is like a punt except it bounces before it's kicked, and you can get three points or an extra point after a touchdown.

Scott is the brainiest kid in his sixth-grade class. Chris is the best football player in the school. Chris isn't a very good reader, and Scott isn't that good at football. So they made a deal. Scott would help Chris with his schoolwork and Chris would help Scott with football.

At the championship where the Eagles play the Lions, the Lions scored a safety to make the score 2-0. And that's how it stayed until the 4th quarter. On third down Chris was sacked and got injured and the Eagles used their last timeout. The Eagles' coach wanted to try and get a touchdown, but Chris told the coach that Scott could make a drop-kick. There were 2 seconds left in the game and Scott made the kick to make the score 3-2 - a baseball score! The Eagles won the Championship.

I liked the book because it was all about sports and I like sports too. Look in stores, because Mike Lupica has other books like Miracle on 49th Street and Hot Hands. I'm reading Hot Hands next. It's about basketball.