The Boy Who saved Baseball

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The Boy Who saved Baseball
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The boy who saved baseballWritten by John H.
Ritter.
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Author Information
John H. Ritter was born in San Diego. One of the
books he wrote wasThe Boy Who saved
Baseball. John H. Ritter is a full time writer
who also enjoys playing baseball in the amateur
league. He speaks at schools and conferences
around the nation. Today John lives in San Diego
with his wife. He has one grown up daughter.
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Setting
The Boy who Saved Baseball took place in San
Diego. In a place called Dillontown in its
baseball field.
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Main CharactersCruz de la Cruz,Tom
Gallagher,Dante Del Gatos,Cody,and Doc.
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Plot Summary.
Developers wanted to destroy Dillontown and put
new stuff in.
A baseball game decided the fate of the town.
A boy named Cruz de la Cruz comes into town.
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Once Cruz de la Cruz joins the team he becomes
their best player.
Cruz can pitch, catch, hit, and throw.
Later Cruz and Tom tried to get a baseball legend
Dante Del Gato to help coach their team.
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Dante starts to teach them a drill with Christmas
lights to help them focus.
On the day of the game they find out that Cruz
was gone so they had to play without him.
In the game Maria got hit in her shin with a ball.
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After that she still wanted to keep pitching so
they let her.
At the end of the game tom was up to bat and the
bases were loaded.
Tom got two strikes and then a hit he got to
second the men that were on 2nd 3rd scored they
won!
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Dock died of shock and his will went to Tom and
Tom lived happily for the rest of his life.
Nobody ever saw Cruz again.
Tom realized that a prophecy came true and in
spanish Cruz means cross.
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Main Characters

• Tom-Main character
• Cruz-Toms friend
• Mr. Mrs Gallager - Toms parents
• Dante Del Gato - Baseball legend
• Doc- land owner and friend of Toms

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Conflict.
People want to destroy Dillontown. And they want
to make it into a town with traffic and more
houses.
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• Conflict/Resolution
• Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot because his town
  
• Dillon Towns baseball field is about to get torn
  down
• by developers and he has to save it all by
  himself.
• When everything is about to go wrong a boy named
• Cruz de la Cruz knows a secret of hitting and
  Cruz
• and Cruz is going to help. Tom ask Del Gatos to
  coach the Dillon Towns baseball team .This plan
  maybe crazy but, its Toms hope of saving his
  home Town (Dillon Town

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Resolution.
Doc decides that the towns fate will be decided
be on the Outcome of a youth Baseball game.
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Opinions
We think that it is the best book in the
world. And think that every one should go out and
buy a copy.
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The End Created by Danny Slay and Dangelo
Johnson April 2006.