Wall Ball (10 page)
RAMBLETOWN ROUNDERS LINEUP
FOR THE SEASON OPENER
AGAINST HOG CITY HAYMAKERS
(with batting averages from the previous season)
PLAYER: Ducks Bunion
POSITION: left field
THROWS: left
BATS: left
BA: .301
PLAYER: Stump Plumwhiff
POSITION: shortstop
THROWS: right
BATS: right
BA: .280
PLAYER: The Great Walloper Banjo H. Bishbash
POSITION: third base
THROWS: right
BATS: right
BA: .560
PLAYER: Tugboat Tooley
POSITION: catcher
THROWS: right
BATS: right
BA: .277
PLAYER: Orlando Ramirez
POSITION: center field
THROWS: left
BATS: left
BA: .326
*
PLAYER: Gilly Wishes
POSITION: first base
THROWS: left
BATS: left
BA: .309
PLAYER: Slingshot Slocum
POSITION: pitcher
THROWS: right
BATS: right
BA: .333
PLAYER: Octavio “Ocho” James
POSITION: right field
THROWS: right
right
BA: .286
PLAYER: Ellis “the Glove” Rodriguez
POSITION: second base
THROWS: right
BATS: right
BA: .304
PLAYER: Kid Rabbit Winkle
POSITION: substitute third base
THROWS: right
BATS: right
BA: .299
PLAYER: Gasser Phipps
POSITION: center field
THROWS: right
BATS: right
BA: .305
**
PLAYER: Lou “Skip-to-My-Lou” Clementine
POSITION: manager
Score for the season opener:
Team:
HCH
1:
2
2:
0
3:
1
4:
0
5:
0
6:
0
R:
3
H:
7
E:
2
Team:
RAM
1:
1
2:
0
3:
0
4:
0
5:
4
6:
X
R:
5
H:
5
E:
0
W: Slingshot Slocum, L: Dirty Joe Dartoe
KEVIN MARKEY
vividly remembers his first hit. The ball sailed over the third baseman, deftly eluded two converging outfielders, and scampered like a jackrabbit nearly all the way to the woods at the edge of the park. The thrill was such he almost forgot to run.
A graduate of Georgetown University, Kevin is the author of
SLUMPBUSTER
, the hilarious first book in his Super Sluggers series of baseball adventures, and several books of nonfiction. He also contributes to various magazines, including
Family Fun
. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children and a lovable yellow-haired dog named Happy. He bats left, throws left, and types with both hands. You can visit him online at www.kevinmarkey.com.
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Jacket design by Ray Shappell
Walloper and his classmates are studying the poems “Father Time Is Coming” by J. Patrick Lewis (Chapter 10) and “Watermelon” by Charles Simic (Chapter 14) in class.
THE SUPER SLUGGERS: WALL BALL
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Markey, Kevin.
Wall ball / Kevin Markey.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(Super sluggers)
Summary: As the boys of the Rambletown Rounders get ready for another baseball season, spring training is taking place in the snowiest weather Rambletown has ever seen.
ISBN 978-0-06-115221-4 (trade bdg.)
[1. Baseball—Fiction. 2. Snow—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M3394546Wal 2010 2009014266
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
AC
EPub Edition © January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-198668-0
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*
Average with the Orange Park Alligators of the Greater Jacksonville, Florida, Citrus League
**
Injured
