A Topps League Story #4: The 823rd Hit

A Topps League Story #4: The 823rd Hit book cover
or two weeks in August I did the worst thing ever I did something I never thought I’d do I rooted against my team the Pine City Porcupines This is what happened When I got my job as a Pines batboy Mom and Dad said I couldn’t work during the school year They said I’d be out too late on school nights They thought I would need the time to do homework So I knew my days as a batboy were numbered when Mom started talking about clothes and school supplies and my new teacher
A Topps League Story #4: The 823rd Hit

A Topps League Story #4: The 823rd Hit

These fun, illustrated early chapter books feature the adventures—and misadventures—of the Pine City Porcupines, a hapless baseball farm team, and their two batboys: Chad, an avid baseball fan with a huge baseball card collection, and Dylan, who doesn’t know a thing about the sport. The fictional series has a unique twist: Chad solves problems by using information from Topps cards of real figures from modern baseball history. Teddy “Bear” Larrabee, a slugger on the Pine City Porcupines, gets his 823rd base hit on his birthday, August 23—and it’s a home run! The Bear is a big believer in the power of numbers, so he asks Pines batboy Chad to retrieve the ball from the stands. There’s only one problem: the crabby fan in the ballpark who caught it. Chad really wants to keep the Bear happy and slugging, so he’s just got to figure out what the fan would be willing to trade for that 823 ball.

About This Book

By: Kurtis Scaletta
Illustrated by: Eric Wight
Published by: Abrams
7-9Age Range
3.5 AR
77Pages
Life LessonsSubject
530LLexile
1-2 hoursReading Time
MGuided Reading
MFountas & Pinnell
28DRA