Extra Innings

Great story about the Ethiopian Clowns, a black baseball team similar to the "Harlem Globetrotters"! Vidalia, is taken in and raised by the team then is raised by a young white couple. Vidalia tells the whole story to the young heir of the stonemason.......more

Tate Stonemason has big dreams of playing pro baseball but after a tragic plane crash kills his family and paternal grandparents and brutally injures Tate’s leg he fears that the only place he will ever play pro baseball will be in his dreams. Tate is taken in by his great-grandfather Abbott and gre......more

I think the purpose for Robert Newton Peck writing this book was to help us understand a kid with a dream of playing pro baseball. But, after a tragic plane crash kills his family and paternal grandparents and brutally injuries his leg, he could never play baseball again. Also the author is trying t......more

This novel’s cover and title are somewhat deceiving, since the teenage protagonist never plays ball during the novel, and 2/3 of the novel is told from the point of adults. The novel is primarily a novel of character, told from three points of view. Sixteen year old Tate Stonemason’s parents, patern......more

I didn't like the book Extra Innings. On one had the book was about baseball, which I like. On the other hand, the book switched point of views very often. I didn't understand the book till it was over, when I realized it was flashbacks and different points of views. It was about a guy that was a go......more