This six weeks I decided to read Heart of a Champion by Carl Deuker. This book was first published in 1993 by Carl Deuker. This book is a Fiction book about a 6th grader named Seth Barham that grows up with his friend Jimmy Winter playing baseball together as they get to Varsity baseball in high school. Seth didn't know how to play baseball until Jimmy met him and taught him how to play during 6th grade. Seth and Jimmy went to the same high school to play varsity baseball in junior year. During varsity baseball they win all their games and go to the championship until something happens that messes up the team. The theme of this book is partnership and ambition.
The story is told by Seth in 1st person view because Seth is the one that is the main character talking in the story. Seth's dad died when he was 7 years and lived with his mom. Seth would've been a golfer like his dad was because his dad was a good but lousy golfer. But, when Seth went to Henry Ford School's playground he saw Jimmy for the first time and he was playing baseball while his dad was coaching him. Jimmy and his dad saw him and introduced themselves and offered Seth to play baseball with them. Seth was put at 2nd base to make double plays while Jimmy was at shortstop. So every Saturday Seth met Jimmy and his dad at the school in the mornings and ended at 4pm. Seth played with Jimmy forever until Jimmy's dad got divorced with his mom so Jimmy had to move with his mom away from their Jimmy's dad. So Seth played in baseball leagues until Jimmy and his mother decided to move back. So Jimmy and Seth went to the same high school and played as freshmen's at their high school. Jimmy made it to varsity while Seth went to junior varsity. So Seth was really wanting to play with Jimmy in varsity baseball but he couldn't during freshman year. Then Junior year came by and Seth and Jimmy made it to varsity baseball. But Jimmy was looking tired every practice and Seth found out that Jimmy drank beer all day. So Seth made him stop so that he could play like a baseball player that didn't drink. Varsity went all the way to the state championship until during the night Seth got a call that Jimmy was in the hospital. So Seth rushed to the hospital and saw that their coach Rick Sharront and Jimmy's mom crying. Then Seth found out that Jimmy was in an accident and died. So they had to forfeit there semi-final game so that the team could go to his funeral. After the funeral they wanted to win the championship for Jimmy and they won. The team knew that the championship was Jimmy's because Jimmy had the heart of a champion. I think the intended audience is for baseball players and people in middle school and up. The genre was a realistic fiction and this book fit into me a little because I played baseball. The author kept me interested because Seth and Jimmy was best friends and wanted to know what would happen to them as they played baseball together.
The book affected me because this book made me think that being a leader will change the team and how they will play and that choosing bad stuff like drinking beer would lead to bad stuff like dying. This kind of changed my idea because I already knew that doing bad stuff will lead you to worse stuff. I didn't have another book that was related to this book.
I loved this book because this book had a little bit of surprises at the end and had some fun parts of the book because of the baseball game in the book. I would recommend this book to baseball players and sport players because this book tells us how being a leader would change your teams perspective and that choosing bad stuff will lead you to worse stuff.
David Oh
11/7/13
Rating: 4.9 *****<---- 9/10 of the star
The story is told by Seth in 1st person view because Seth is the one that is the main character talking in the story. Seth's dad died when he was 7 years and lived with his mom. Seth would've been a golfer like his dad was because his dad was a good but lousy golfer. But, when Seth went to Henry Ford School's playground he saw Jimmy for the first time and he was playing baseball while his dad was coaching him. Jimmy and his dad saw him and introduced themselves and offered Seth to play baseball with them. Seth was put at 2nd base to make double plays while Jimmy was at shortstop. So every Saturday Seth met Jimmy and his dad at the school in the mornings and ended at 4pm. Seth played with Jimmy forever until Jimmy's dad got divorced with his mom so Jimmy had to move with his mom away from their Jimmy's dad. So Seth played in baseball leagues until Jimmy and his mother decided to move back. So Jimmy and Seth went to the same high school and played as freshmen's at their high school. Jimmy made it to varsity while Seth went to junior varsity. So Seth was really wanting to play with Jimmy in varsity baseball but he couldn't during freshman year. Then Junior year came by and Seth and Jimmy made it to varsity baseball. But Jimmy was looking tired every practice and Seth found out that Jimmy drank beer all day. So Seth made him stop so that he could play like a baseball player that didn't drink. Varsity went all the way to the state championship until during the night Seth got a call that Jimmy was in the hospital. So Seth rushed to the hospital and saw that their coach Rick Sharront and Jimmy's mom crying. Then Seth found out that Jimmy was in an accident and died. So they had to forfeit there semi-final game so that the team could go to his funeral. After the funeral they wanted to win the championship for Jimmy and they won. The team knew that the championship was Jimmy's because Jimmy had the heart of a champion. I think the intended audience is for baseball players and people in middle school and up. The genre was a realistic fiction and this book fit into me a little because I played baseball. The author kept me interested because Seth and Jimmy was best friends and wanted to know what would happen to them as they played baseball together.
The book affected me because this book made me think that being a leader will change the team and how they will play and that choosing bad stuff like drinking beer would lead to bad stuff like dying. This kind of changed my idea because I already knew that doing bad stuff will lead you to worse stuff. I didn't have another book that was related to this book.
I loved this book because this book had a little bit of surprises at the end and had some fun parts of the book because of the baseball game in the book. I would recommend this book to baseball players and sport players because this book tells us how being a leader would change your teams perspective and that choosing bad stuff will lead you to worse stuff.
David Oh
11/7/13
Rating: 4.9 *****<---- 9/10 of the star
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