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The Only Game By Mike Lupica
The book The Only Game by Mike Lupica is a realistic fiction book about a young boy named Jack Callahan, who loves the game of baseball but suddenly quits one day. During the story, Jack is pressured by all of his friends and teammates to play again, but there is only one person who doesn’t pressure Jack to play and that is a girl named Cassie Bennett. Cassie is a star softball player that is on the softball team that Jack helps coach. Jack also has another friend named Teddy who gets picked on because of his weight but Jack thinks that he has the potential to be a good player and with his and Cassie’s help they might turn him into a baseball player. Now you may think that Jack trying to make Teddy a baseball player is the main problem in
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