The Baseball Boy

Kelly Roberts
Beau Francis Press (2007)
ISBN 9780979214707
Reviewed by Nicholas Lopez (age 5) and Leslie Granier for Reader Views (12/07)

“The Baseball Boy” is written by Kelly Roberts, whose son Doug is a major league baseball player.  This story follows his passion to become a baseball player from his days of playing T-ball through his high school years.  She also vividly describes, in a way to which children can relate, the events that occur at baseball games and how much fun it is to attend.

Nicholas really liked the story.  He said, “Baseball is fun.  I like to hit the ball really far and run around the bases.  Playing baseball when I'm old would be cool.  Mom and Dad will go to all my games and maybe I'll be on TV.”   He also liked the part with the seventh inning stretch, saying, “I can sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’ really loud.”

Roberts provides an inspirational story for people of all ages in “The Baseball Boy.”  She stresses the importance of working hard to achieve one's goals.  Equally important, she mentions that her son's teams did not win all the time but he kept working hard to become a better player.  I think it was good that she began the story with her son as a young child.  By doing this, she shows that sometimes it takes a long time to reach a goal, but that once it is achieved the work and time invested was worthwhile.

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