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They Came From Center Field

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I first read it when I was about twelve and absolutely loved it. I liked the characters, which is really what makes me think a book is good, rather than the storyline, but in this case I liked both. Okay, so I'm a bit too old for it now, but it's still one of my favourites.

An experienced, very good baseball team made up of some kids finds themselves facing against a group of aliens! The kids think that winning will be no sweat, but boy are they wrong! This is the alien's first time playing baseball, but they sure are good! The kid's begin to think that there is no way they are going to win. By then, it is getting late and the aliens say they have to be getting home. Then the kids think up a very clever way of winning, but I'm not going to tell you how they won. Well, because they won, they win a ride in the alien's spaceship! This is an incredible, non-forgetable book! It is also very easy to read- I read it in about 40 minutes.

It all starts when some kids are playing baseball. They see something wierd and decide to investigate. They find some aliens. The aliens want to play baseball. If the aliens lose the kids get a ride in one of their spaceships. The kids accept because they don't think they can lose. They can't lose? Boy are they in for a surprise! A double surprise! If you liked this book, tell your friends about it; share the excitement! I think this book was great and if you do..well you know a good book ought not be wasted!

I would recommend this book to someone who loves baseball. This is a book that has a lot of action right from the start.
This book is about a smart baseball team with lots of courage. They're playing a baseball game with another town - no umps, no parents no one but the two teams playing some baseball. All the sudden there's a huge bang and flashing lights out past center field. Everyone ran except the SBD's (silent but deadly). The team was really brave. They marched out past center field. "There it is!" they shouted. "It's three flying saucers". Bloop one of the players went out to see them.

"We are friendly. Please don't hurt us" Bloop said. They came out. They looked like coke machines with a hole in the middle of them the size of a peanut butter jar.
"What do you want here" asked Bloop. The aliens said they came for baseball. The two teams made a deal that if they kids taught them how to play baseball, then they would play a game if the SBD's won then the team gets a ride in the aliens' space ship.

I liked this book because things started happening right away and I also like baseball.

They Came From Center Field by Dan Gutman is about an evening by Crow's woods behind Tutum school where was a baseball field. There were four kids who were playing on a baseball team called the SBD. The SBD almost won every game they had played but this was one of the best teams. Luckily, the SBD were winning 2 to 0. In the ninth inning it was 2 to 1. The bases were loaded and the other team was up. There were two outs and full count. Right after the best batter struck out and the other team left then the left the field defeated, the SBD saw a light in center field. It was the alien's light on the ship.
When the aliens came and they got out of the ship, they challenged the SBD to a game of baseball. The SBD made a deal that if they won or if the aliens forfeited they got to go for a ride in the alien's ship. When they were playing, the SBD were winning badly and the aliens forfeited the game. Mack said that a deal is a deal.
The SBD got to go for a ride in the alien's ship. They were touching every thing they saw in the ship. I wonder if they will ever come back again?
Dan Gutman likes to write books about baseball and funny things. I like him because he seems like a "sportsy" and funny guy. He's the best author ever.

I liked the book a lot and I recommend it to 4th or 5th graders. I think that anyone who likes mystery and some adventure should read it. I recommend this author to anyone between the ages between 8-12.

I loved this book, because it was easy to read book that is what I like to read. Also it was cool how they made the book about aliens and baseball. But I only like to read about baseball. Baseball is basically the only thing I like to read about because it is exciting. The only part I didn't like to read about was the aliens. I think I'm a little too old for that. They could have at least made the aliens sound more real than they did. But besides the aliens, it was a great book.

There was a baseball team called the SBDs that never lost a baseball game. But after one game they heard a huge crash in the woods. So they went to see what the crash was. Guess what it was- three spaceships, but these doors started to open it startled them when aliens came out. The aliens wanted to know how to play baseball. So the SBDs taught them except the aliens pitched eight hundred miles per hour. The aliens were so strong they hit the baseballs to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Have the SBDs finally meet their match? Is that all the aliens want? Read the book

I think the type of reader who would like this book is a reader who likes to read about baseball and aliens, because that's what the story's about. I love to read about baseball but not aliens. The only other suggestion is I think more boys would like this story than girls because of the topic.

The book I remember is "It came from center field" because it is a great book and I liked it because it has lots of things about Baseball and I like Baseball! I liked it because it was funny and it has lots of excitement . I think everyone should read this book. I give it four stars. By: Mitchell