Baseball Pals (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) [Paperback]

Matthew F Christopher (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2, 1990 | Age Level: 8 and up | Series: Matt Christopher Sports Classics (Book 3)

Voted captain of his baseball team, Jimmie declares himself pitcher even though Paul is a better pitcher. Paul leaves for another team, and Jimmie's team starts losing. Can Jimmie regain the confidence of his friends?

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 117 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (April 2, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316140058
• ISBN-13: 978-0316140058
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 7.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,139,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Matthew F. Christopher was born on August 16, 1917, in Bath, Pa. He was the oldest of nine children and a talented athlete, playing baseball, football and soccer in high school. He became interested in writing at the age of 14 and in 1940 had his first story published in a detective magazine. He began writing children's books in the mid 1950's with the publication of THE LUCKY BASEBALL BAT (Little, Brown and Company).

Christopher became well-known for his sports fiction novels for children with over 130 titles bearing his name. He was awarded numerous writing honors from state organizations as well as the 1993 Milner Award. Besides books, he had about 275 short stories and articles published in over 65 children and adult magazines over the years. He is considered America's best selling sports book author.

Matt Christopher and his wife Cay were the parents of four children and the grandparents of ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He died in 1997 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Baseball fails, January 31, 2002

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kyle (Beaverton, OR, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baseball Pals (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) (Paperback)

This book was good dont get me wrong but most of the parts were soooo boring i could have fallin asleep right in the middle of reading it. Some of the scenes where the firneds were mad at each other were kinda interesting. We then got back to being friends again i was glad for them, but it seemed like just out of now where they all of a sudden just starting being frineds again so that didnt make much sence to me. But over all i rated the book a middle 3 because there were some parts of the book that needed to be worked on but some of them were also good enough to read again. I am a big fan of sports book and playing these sports but this book also just didnt seem like a baseball book. It should have just been titled Pals

4.0 out of 5 stars OK BOOK FOR YOU, May 25, 2007

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Mid-Prairie Teen - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baseball Pals (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) (Paperback)

Baseball Pals is written by Matt Christopher and it is about 97 pages and it has short chapters. If you like baseball books and one were there is a kid that wants to play one spot and there is a kid that is a lot better than him at that spot and they are the best of friends. This book is one that you would like if you have a lower reading level. One thing I didn't like was that there wasn't that much detail on the characters, but there is a lot of detail towards the games and what they are thinking in there heads

5.0 out of 5 stars baseball pals, November 28, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Baseball Pals (Audio Cassette)

I read a book about peopelthat play baseball.And it made me feel unhappy because jimmy didn,t get to pich. But i thing peopel would like this book because it is funny and grat.But the part i liked is when he got to pich.And befor that he was outfeild and infeild.And he sometimes he wated to be cacher