These fun, illustrated early chapter books feature the adventures—and misadventures—of the Pine City Porcupines, a hapless baseball farm team, and their two batboys: Chad, an avid baseball fan with a huge baseball card collection, and Dylan, who doesn’t know a thing about the sport. The fictional series has a unique twist: Chad solves problems by using information from Topps cards of real figures from modern baseball history. Pine City Porcupines batboy Chad breaks an important unofficial rule of baseball: Don’t talk to the starting pitcher when he’s got a perfect game going, where not a single opponent has reached base. Now, because Chad opened his mouth, the entire Pines dugout is upset, and the team may lose to the second-to-last-place West Valley Varmints. Chad has to consult his baseball card collection to figure out how to help his beloved Pines pull off the perfect game.
| ISBN: | 9781419704376 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2012 |
| Author: | Kurtis Scaletta |
| Illustrator: | Eric Wight |
| Publisher: | Amulet Books an imprint of Abrams |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Genres: |
Sporting Stories Children’s / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: Baseball and Softball |