Product Description
Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims to know the secret of hitting. Not to mention the secrets of Dante Del Gato, Dillontown's greatest hitter ever. Since he walked away from the game years ago, Del Gato hasn't spoken a word to anyone. But now he might be Tom's only hope for saving his hometown. From the award-winning author of Over the Wall and Choosing Up Sides comes this imaginative tale of one boy's struggle to preserve the spirit of the game he loves.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 41 reviews)

A Cheesey and Predictable Book for Young Kids Only...

I read this book after my son read it in school. I must say, I wasn't very impressed. The characters were shallow, the dialouge juvenile, and the plot predictable.
This is a book written for young kids. And young kids will most likely enjoy it. It is a great book for kids, as it is easy to read and has no objectionable content. But for anyone but young kids, it's a drag.
October 12, 2008

It's a great baseball book!

I am 11 years old and I play baseball. This was a great book I think because it had soooo many things that were going bad but then turned into great things. It made me feel...when you try your hardest, you will always win the game.
October 08, 2008

Book Review by Tyler

The Boy Who Saved Baseball is a good book for you if you love baseball. But my opinion is that some parts don't go with the topic of baseball. But most parts are fun like hitting contests.
This book is basically about this group of boys just having fun together playing baseball. They all were having fun until they figured out that baseball is dying. Teeball was killing baseball because it wasn't teaching the players how to really hit the ball and use their eyes to help their ability to hit a moving target. But will the team bring back baseball? You're gonna have to read the book and find you!
They are also trying to figure out a secret of a REALLY GOOD HITTER. His secret is the biggest secret in baseball history.. Are they gonna find out what the secret is? You're gonna have to read the book to find out.
July 20, 2008

a good baseball collectors book

The book I read was The Boy who Saved Baseball. I really liked this book. This book was about a boy that rides into town and claims to know the secret to a famous baseball player that never told anyone. This is all happening while a single baseball game is depending on the survival of the town. The whole town depends on one single baseball game.
I really liked this book because I thought it had suspense. It was a very good book. I like the author of this book a lot because he was descriptive. I would read any other book by this author. This book also made me happy.

December 19, 2007

The Boy Who Saved Baseball

The book I read was The Boy Who Saved Baseball. This book is about a town called Dillontown and its historical baseball field. The field is in danger of being destroyed by Orange County but it could be saved by just winning a baseball game against the camp down the hill. The fate of Dillontown lies in the hands of Tom Gallagher and the rest of the baseball team.

My favorite part of the book was when Cruz De La Cruz and Tom Gallagher sneak out to go to Dante Del Gato's house to ask him to coach and hopefully tell them the secret of hitting. They ride there horses up to his house and find that there is a large wall surrounding his house. Cruz thinks and comes up with an idea, he gets a rope and finds a metal thing on the ground, he ties the metal thing to the end of the rope and lasso's it around a tree behind the wall. Cruz climbs the wall using the rope but the wall couldn't handle the weight so it collapsed and left a giant gap in the wall. Then Del Gato came with a shotgun, Cruz quickly apoligized and explained what happened and why they came. They asked Del Gato if he could coach there team and he said no, they also asked the secret of hitting but he told them there was none.

This deffinatley wasn't the best book I have read becuase there is a lot of boring parts. Although once you get to the end of the book it is worth it. The title may make this book seem like more of a boys book because of the word "Baseball" but however it is not all about baseball htere is more to it that you would have to find out by readiing this book. This is a good book for any age or gender considering that it is quite an easy read. Overall, I do recommend the book The Boy Who Saved Baseball to anyone.

April 23, 2007

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