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The story takes place in Flint, Minnesota in a small farming town. The main characters are Billy Baggs, Mavis Baggs (Billy's mom), Abner Baggs (Billy's dad), Skinner (Billy's dog), Heather, King Kenwood, Danny Boyer, Aaron Goldberg, Bob McGinty, Coach Anderson and the Gonzalez brothers. The main character is Billy Baggs who finds himself running the family dairy farm because his dad is in jail and his mom works full-time. Billy hardly had any free time and had to work during daylight hours doing all the chores on the farm. He couldn't join the town baseball team because they practiced when he needed to be at the farm. His mom felt bad he had to give up the thing he loved most, baseball. She talked him into making a baseball field on their farm and make up a team with other kids who worked on farms too. She put out flyers and they ended up with a team.
The town team heard about the farm team and laughed at them. King Kenwood who is the star pitcher for the town team challenged the farm team to a game because he never liked Billy and always made fun of him. Billy always played ball with Skinner his dog and Skinner became really good at catching fly balls. The big day came and to the town teams surprise the Farm team was winning. The Town team was up and it was their last chance to win, they had the winning run on base. Skinner ran out onto the field and King Kenwood said they should be disqualified because he is not a player, so Billy added him to the rooster and left him in to play. King Kenwood hit the ball hard and Skinner ran to the ball and caught it, the game was over and the farm team won thanks to Skinner. King Kenwood will learn to keep quiet next time.
I would recommend this book to my friends because I enjoyed reading it. I think you would enjoy reading it if you like to play baseball.
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