Baseball Pals

by Matt Christopher

Book Overview

Jimmie learns an important lesson about the misuse of power when he is elected captain of his baseball team and makes decisions that are not in the team's best interests This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316140058
• ISBN13: 9780316140058
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Another one by Matt Christopher

The Book of baseball pals is an amazing book. It all starts out about a kid named Jimmie who was the manager of his baseball team. He though he could pitch, but really everyone knew that Paul was better and still didn't admit to it. So then Paul decides to pitch for another team. When the season starts Jimmie's team is really bad because there team has no pitchers. Paul and Jimmie are best friends so they never want to be on different teams, so there are many problems along the way. In this book it shows how sometimes when you're a kid you want to be the pitcher and want to be the best player but that isn't always the right thing. It will teach some kids not to be selfish all the time and know that they always aren't the best player. For the length of the book it had some really good action of sports. If you like sports this would be an awesome book to read. It is a really hard book to put down while reading it. I like the theme of this book and also the plot. That is why I put 4 out of 5 stars on it.

HowI Rate my Baseball Pals.

This book was a really good book. I especially like how it's a sports novel but also explains life lessons. The story is about two friends that both want to pitch for their baseball team but the team only wants one pitcher, one of the friends is the captain of the team and decides the positions and assigns himself pitcher. The other friend feels left out and they split up. This book has some great morals, 1. Don't single one person out. 2. Let everyone try. 3.realize your friends. By: Dominic, A Sixth Grader from Maine p.s. Matt Christopher ROCKS!!!

baseball pal's

this book was the best book in the world i have ever read it was so full of action and pleasure. i think jimmie thinks to much of himself and well it was a good book. it makes me think about baseball and pal's. the end

Baseball Pal's Review

I had read the book, "Baseball Pals", the author of the book is the famous sports writer, Matt Christopher. The main character in this story is Jimmie, in the story he was picked as the manager of his baseball team and he wanted to pitch, unfortunately so did his best friend Paul, but he wanted to pitch so Paul quit his team and went to another team. The plot was that Jimmie was being selfish and his friend quit the team, Jimmie also turned out not to be that good of a pitcher. The setting of the story is during present day, it takes place in a city, and the name was not named in the story. The theme of this amazing story is baseball. It also explains to not be selfish, because you can sometimes even lose your best friend. I liked this story that is why I rate it 5 stars; it was a very thorough and well written story. The author had a good beginning, middle and end. The story was about my favorite theme of baseball; also it had a good plot and was an overall good story.

Baseball palls. Palls with me.

Jimmie wants to be a pitcher but can't get the ball over the plate like Rudi Stine of the bad news bears who allowed 55 runs in 20 inings. I read it in my school libary and enjoyed scores like 22-2,18-8,14-4,11-2,16-6 and such. I am a boys club pitcher who struggles two.