Customer Reviews

Long Stretch at First Base (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)

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My son who is 8 read this book for school and had to write a book report so I also read it in order to help him. Overall I wasn't impressed and although my son is a baseball fanatic he wasn't all that enthusiatic for the story as well.
The main plot of the story really gets lost in the endless descriptions of games. The story lacks a lot of details that might help to position it in the mind of the reader. Where does the story take place. How old are the kids? How is it possible that Bobby and Kirby are on the same Little League team when they are far enough apart in age that there is a sister between them?

And there are scenes in the book that add nothing to the story - like the scense with them in a tent watching a deer.

And the ending was bizarre. Other than it being a little unexpected how does it add anything to the main plot line??

Not the best story in my opinion.

This is a great book and the begining of the book is great because it has alot of detail on what happen.My favorit part of the book is when he hit a home run and went to the all-star.

The main characters are Kirby and his little brother.They love the game of baseball.They could live on baseball.They play on a baseball team.They had to play a very good team and if they won the game they would be in first place.That means they are the best team.During that game they had the lead untill the end of the game when the other team came back and won.That put Kirby's team in third place.They thought they could have won the game.This book is not the best but not the worst.

I gave long Long Stretch at First Base a 3. I gave it a three because it was a nice story, but it went kind of slow. The story was about a boy who is worried about his older brother who might not make the All- Star baseball team. During the story I couldn't understand why or how they were in a tent, and then all the sudden they were in the house. Overall it was a pretty good book.