The Batboy

This is an amazing book about a 14 year old boy named Ryan who lives with a single mother. Ryan's favorite sport is baseball, he loves to play it and he loves to watch it. He got this passion from his dad, a star major league pitcher. But his dad abandoned their family, which was stupid because Ryan is a great kid. Ryan applied for a batboy job with his favorite team, the Tigers. In his mind this is the perfect summer job, and it sounds pretty awesome to me too. But it got even better for Ryan. The Tigers just hired his all time favorite player, Hank Bishop. But while trying to do acts of kindness for Hank, Ryan gets a look at how mean Hank can really be. All this is going on while Ryan is in the worst hitting slump of his life for his own select team. Finally with everything else happening, Ryan's idiot dad shows up and all he seems to do is make Ryan feel worse. But right when Ryan's world is about to collapse, things get better. It starts with Hank and Ryan's Mom developing a relationship, and then Hank starts being nicer to Ryan and helps him out of his slump. Can Hank hit his 500th homerun before it's too late? Can Ryan help his select team win the state championship? Read The Batboy to find out. This is probably one of my favorite books, and I really love how independent Ryan is and how they build Hank's character throughout the story.

My daughter said to me this morning, "Mom, this is the best book I've ever read." So I tried it myself, and it was amazing. This book is about a boy that had a dad that played for the Tigers and was a pitcher, but his dad then retired, but his love for baseball didn't end. Every second he spent with his son, he though about baseball, and how he couldn't play anymore. So one day, the dad divorces the mom with a note, and leaves for Japan, where he is a baseball coach. Now, the boy found a job where he is batboy for the Detroit Tigers, and the book takes off from there. You should seriously consider reading this book. I can almost guarantee that you will love this book.

My grandson and I read the book together. It was his summer reading for school. We enjoyed "The Batboy", he wasn't happy that he had to write a book report on it. He claimed he would have enjoyed reading it more if he didn't have to do school work. I felt it was a good read for a boy whose parents aren't together, and how he feels.

Son liked this book

Bf asked for this for his birthday. He didn’t read it until two months after the following birthday. But it was so good he immediately asked for the other books in the series. So good read I guess.

Could be better, had a little bit that I would have improved on, but overall, a decent book for sports fans.

I love this book. We use it to teach 7th grade English. Now days we have lots of kids from divorced families. This is a good book with this topic and includes a sports theme as well

We really like this book so far. About half way through. We have decided that we like the Game Changer series better, but not a bad read at all.