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Summary Of The Book 'Baseball Great'
Henry Barnhart p.2. Week 9 response entry

The book that I am reading is Baseball Great by Tim Green. The book is about a kid named Josh who is very good at baseball. He is so good his dad has him make the U14 traveling baseball team( Josh is only 12 years old).the book starts to get interesting when Josh gets hooked up in gym candy (steroids). Josh's best friend Benji and Jaden help him solve the mystery.

The one that I am choosing is when Josh's teammates offer him gym candy (steroids). Dear diary, today is spring of 2009. On my travailing Baseball team, some of the guys asked me about gym candy, and if I would want to do it. I was all like sure but only because they were pressuring me to do it and I was like sure.
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