Strike Three! Take Your Base [Paperback]

Frosty Wooldridge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2001 | Age Level: 9 and up

Coached and nurtured by their father, Bob and Rex Whitman are promising high school baseball stars. Their world turns upside down when they learn their father has died suddenly while umpiring another high school baseball game. Bob assumes the role of the eldest in the family and Rex falls apart. As the family moves through the rituals of death, Bob and Rex recall their father's lessons, bringing both pain and healing.

Each chapter is preceded by a quotation about baseball from a famous person and gives readers pause: "Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting."

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 5-9-This heartrending story of anger, sadness, loneliness, and responsibility faced by family members is told through the eyes of the oldest sibling, 17-year-old Bob, after his father's death. The carefully crafted narrative includes a graphic of an umpire's brush and a baseball to represent the father and his two sons along with a foreshadowing quote about the game or one by a well-known player. Baseball lessons guide the brothers as they struggle with the insensitivity of others, sibling rivalry, and, finally, acceptance and moving on as each son deals with his pain in a different way. The quickly unfolding tale will hold readers to the very end with wrenching dialogue, flashbacks that help understand the characters' behaviors and their relationships with their father, and descriptive scenes from baseball games and practices. Many readers will find that this is a difficult book to put down.
Janice C. Hayes, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Brookfield Reader (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930093071
• ISBN-13: 978-1930093072
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,030,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Baseball Scholarships, March 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Strike Three! Take Your Base (Hardcover)

In the book Strike Three!Take Your base by Frosty Woodride. Two boys named Rex and Bob Whitman are going to get scholarships for playing baseball. When their world turns up side down, because their dad dies while refing a game. His last words were. "strike three, take your base". But Bob takes charge and Rex falls apart. As the book goes on ,you learn about true love for your family members, because when your family member is gone and will never comeback. Then you'll relize how much you really loved them. In this book, you'll learn about baseball. If you like baseball read this book! Even if you don't like baseball, still read it.