A Topps League Story #5: You're Out!

A Topps League Story #5: You're Out! book cover
hree hundred and fifty-six days out of the year there’s no place I’d rather be than at a baseball game That’s why I’m really lucky to work as a batboy for a minor league team It was my second season with the Pine City Porcupines and it’s the best job a kid can have The other nine days a year there is one place and only one place that I would rather be the state fair A baseball game can go back and forth up and down The state fair has the Whipper Whirl a ride that whips you one way and whirls you the other at five hundred miles an hour
A Topps League Story #5: You're Out!

A Topps League Story #5: You're Out!

Umpire Solomon Johnson is squeezing the strike zone and throws out both the Pine City Porcupines starting pitcher and manager “Grumps” Humphrey for arguing the call. Chad tries to make peace by giving Solomon a rarely issued “umpire card”—but the ump blows his top. He thinks Chad is making fun of his weight. It’s going to be a long nine innings!

About This Book

By: Kurtis Scaletta
Illustrated by: Eric Wight
Published by: Abrams
7-9Age Range
3.6 AR
78Pages
Life LessonsSubject
560LLexile
1-2 hoursReading Time
MGuided Reading
MFountas & Pinnell
28DRA