Big Kid And Sandy example essay topic

The title of this book is Baseball Turnaround and the author is Matt Christopher. This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors.

He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround. Sportsmanship is an important when you are in sports.

When Sandy was coaching the Dolphins, an orphanage baseball team, he gave good comments like "you " ll get 'em next time" and "nice job". He always kept the kids motivated and ready to go by giving high fives and slapping each other's hands. When he was playing on the Raiders he missed an easy catch and some people would go off on a rampage but Sandy he just kept going like it never happened. When Perry Warden Showed up to one of Sandy's games he kept saying negative remarks like "nice job... not" and "get him out of there".

That doesn't only hurt Sandy but it hurts his teammates. One game Sandy was playing, the other team lost and a kid went wild and he started insulting Sandy's team and threw his glove and he was mad. One night, Sandy went to the store because everybody was busy at his house and it seemed to him they didn't even care. So, Sandy went to the store and he wanted to look at the magazines but there was a group in front of his favorite magazine. He was a big kid and Sandy didn't want to ask him to move so he reached around his back and accidentally touched him and he turned around. He asked what he wanted and he Sandy said a magazine.

The kid, a red head, pushed him and knocked down a rack. The store manager got mad and kicked Sandy out of the store and the kids were out there also. The kids had a lot of candy and magazines. One of the kids gave Sandy a magazine that he tried to look at and the kid said "your not so bad". They hung out a while then went to an abandoned shed. They started smoking a cigar and they asked Sandy if he wanted some.

Sandy said no. So one kid got up and pushed him. He hit him and Sandy knocked the table over and there were candles on it. He started running home. The next morning the cops showed up at Sandy's apartment. They wanted to talk to him about last night.

He started telling the officer about the kids and what they did. The officer responded "the old man in the apartment saw a kid running from the shed with a raiders baseball cap on". Not really anyone wears those around. He went to juvenile court and spoke out. After that, Sandy went home and he ended up on being on probation with his probation officer. Sandy had to do a mandatory 20 hours of community service.

The officer, Officer Richards, told him about his brother. He owns a baseball team. He told him about it and he thought if Sandy was good enough he could coach the team along with the other guy. He qualified for it and he got really good at it. Then Officer Richards asked if Sandy would coach full time.

Then after a lot of packing Sandy moved to Newtown. There he played for the Raptors. Perry Warden played on the Raptors last year for 3rd base. Then Sandy told his teammates about his past. Everything was erased from his record. Then he got to play centerfield for the rest of the season.

His parents settled down and apologized for being mean and everyone was happy.