A review by kendallbridgete
Free Baseball by Sue Corbett

2.0

Ehhhhh...one of these days, someone's going to write a sports book that I like/care about. But today's not that day (or, I guess whatever day this was published back in 2008 wasn't the day) and this isn't that book.

I honestly cared more about the story Felix's mom finally told him than any other part of the plot. I had a hard time buying that a kid could just sneak away to become a bat boy for a somewhat professional team (no, that wasn't a spoiler, it says it right on the book's jacket); also, the ending

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might as well have had a giant glittery bow on it. That's not how real life works. I know we read books to escape real life, but that picture perfect ending did not flow with this story. Some elements of it would have been acceptable, but the move, the house, the new job, the new boyfriend...all of that together was too much

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