Review of
Out
to Win: A Baseball Story, by M. G. Bonner
Three out of five stars
Unlike most
books of adolescent sports fiction, this one has no major “moral of the story”
theme. Clipper Bay is a modestly sized town and the story opens with the start
of summer vacation and the beginning of the baseball season. Adopting the
natural name of the Clippers, the boys have formed a team and are looking
forward to playing their rivals from Timberville, called the Campers. They play
many times during the season in a set of games where the champion is simply the
team that wins the most games.
The action is
rather bland and routine, there are a few exciting moments, but no real points
of high drama. Unlike many other books in this genre, there are girls other
than mothers in this one. Not as girlfriends, they are solely playmates, friends
that look and act differently and that don’t play baseball. The boys do a few
things other than baseball, the one action that is a bit different from that in
other books is that they pick blueberries for sale so that they will have money
for bats.
This is a nice
easy read that often plods along at a slow pace. At no point will you stop and
regress a bit out of concern that you missed something.
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