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Summary Of Heart Of A Champion
In Heart of a Champion by Carl Deuker, Seth, a baseball player learns about life through baseball. Seth’s father dies when Seth is very young so he never has a chance to know him. This is paramount to how he lives the rest of his life. Seth lives in Redwood City. After his father’s funeral, Seth walks to Henry Ford School because he did not want to see anybody he knew. When he gets there is life changes forever. He meets a kid his age named Jimmy Winters and his father. Jimmy invites him to play baseball with them and Seth agrees. Seth makes a few mistakes and they help him correct his mistakes. Seth keeps going back to practice with the winters every weekend and he is not only getting better at baseball he is starting to love the game. He is starting to change because of Jimmy and his father. When little league starts Seth is on a minor league team and Jimmy is on a major league team so they cannot practice together anymore on the weekends. One day Seth gets moved up to Jimmy’s major league team because their second baseman got hurt. Seth was stoked that he got moved up but it did not last long because when he got up to bat he struck out. After the game Seth and Jimmy went to work every day they could to help Seth hit better. Jimmy took on the laborious task of pitching to Seth all day until he could no longer pitch. Jimmy …show more content…
Seth agrees and after the wedding They steal a champagne bottle and drink it .When Seth gets home is mom notices he is drunk and Seth promises to never do it again. But Jimmy continues to drink and it is suspended form the team twice for it. When he comes back the team has a chance to contend for the district championship. They win the semifinals and are in the championship. Jimmy went to a party after the game and got drunk. Then Seth woke of from being called saying that Jimmy had been in an accident when Seth got to the hospital Jimmy was already
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