The Big Field by Mike Lupica (243 pages)
Hutch loves to play baseball. When it comes to baseball his dad is not always there for him. His Dad played in the minor leauges and knows alot about baseball but is heart broken because he did not make the major league. Hutch’s dad does not want the same thing to happen to his son. This is a book about the relationship between a father and a son.Even with all this going on, Hutch leads his baseball team to the state championship game. They win! This is the best baseball book I have ever read.
Review by Lane W.
Barton High Tigers have just lost their football coach. Coach Pritchard has been seriously hurt in a car accident. Beano Hatton, school student manager, has to step in and cover for the coach. The final game is in one week. Beano has watched and listened to Coach Pritchard all year. Can Beano do it on his own? What all does Beano do to make sure he does his job? How does the final game come out? What an exciting game!!!
If you are as big a basketball fan as I am you will enjoy The Final Four. Steven Thomas won a writing contest at his school. The winners got a trip to the Final Four Basketball Tournament in New Orleans. Susan Carol, a classmate of Steven’s also won. All the fun takes a turn when Steven and Susan over hear a conversation from the MSU Coach telling a player to lose the game or he is in trouble. His Dad might lose his job. Steven and Susan have 48 hours to uncover the truth and find out who wants MSU to lose. Does the player throw the game or does he play hard to win? This book is unpredictable and keeps you guessing up to the end. 
Joe “Stosh” Stoshack and his friend, comic book store owner Flip Valentini, have a debate about who was the fastest pitcher in baseball history. The problem is that radar guns weren’t invented until the 1970s and pitching speed couldn’t be accurately measured before then. The two decide to use Stosh’s secret time-traveling power to go back to 1942 with a radar gun and clock the speed of the great Satchel Paige’s pitches. Not only do the two get acquainted with Satch’s amazing pitching talents, but they also get to see what a fast-talkin’, fast-livin’ kind of guy Satch was. Filled with true facts from some of baseball’s forgotten great games, this novel is sure to hit a home run with baseball fans.
D.J. Schwenk is not your typical fifteen-year-old girl. Instead of spending her time doing her nails and hair, she has pretty much the sole responsibility of making sure all the chores on her family’s farm get done. She cleans the barn, bales the hay, milks the cows, and much more. Growing up in the Schwenk household is not easy. She’s spent most of her life in her brothers’ shadows because they were major football stars in her small town. When she is “assigned” the job of training her town’s rival quarterback for the upcoming football season, she gets an idea that is sure to rattle her father and the other football fans in town… She decides to try out for the boys’ football team, but what she doesn’t realize is how much trouble it will cause her.
