Striking Out
A Sports and Games, Baseball, Sports book. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To...
Up until now, Billy Baggs's life has been loaded with nevers. Never been to a movie. Never played baseball with a real team. Never got over feeling guilty for the loss of his brother. But change is in the air. Billy discovers he has a natural talent for baseball, especially as a pitcher. Maybe, just maybe, there's more in store for him than life on the farm. But can Billy convince his father of that? Or is he destined to spend the rest of his life pitching nothing but hay?Teenager Billy Baggs is desperately needed on his family's struggling dairy farm, but he's also an extraordinarily gifted natural baseball player. How he struggles to reconcile his father's desire to keep him on the farm with his coach's interest in getting him on the field is at the heart of this ‘meaty story.… The complex characters grow and change in profoundly real ways.''K. ‘[With] flashes of humor, a wealth of lovingly recounted details evokes the difficult daily life on a small dairy farm.''Publishers Weekly. 1994 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)1994 Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)1993 "Pick of the Lists"...
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- Pages: 304 pages
- ISBN: 9780064471138 / 64471136
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Yeah Striking Out was such a good book. It is about a farm boy, whos brother died, (got run over by a tractor) and how he wants to be a pitcher but his dad doesnt want to, nor can they afford it. It was sad and yet there was happy moments. this book really plays with your emotions. It is a page turner, and you will not want to put it down.... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Striking out by Will Weaver is an excellent book about a struggling farm family, and the only child left, Billy Baggs plays baseball to calm himself down. He has to live with himself after he accidentally caused the death of his older brother, and also...
